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From: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>
To: Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be>,
	Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
Cc: OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GSoC: better UTF-8 support
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:09:02 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <564395.96781.qm@web111507.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1298902420.27243.42.camel@thinkpad>

Hi,

> Probably you would choose uni_char=int as representation for characters,
> but for strings there are several possibilities:
> 
> - 16 bits/char: This path is taken by other languages, but only a 
>   subset of Unicode chars can be represented directly

I think this particular representation should be discarded upfront.
It gives the illusion of proper Unicode support, when in fact it is
fundamentally broken.

Cheers,
Dario Teixeira



      


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-28 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-28  8:35 Christophe TROESTLER
2011-02-28  8:58 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-02-28 10:07   ` David Allsopp
2011-02-28 11:21     ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-02-28 11:46       ` David Allsopp
2011-02-28 12:32         ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-02-28 12:59           ` [Caml-list] " Sylvain Le Gall
2011-02-28 10:59   ` Sylvain Le Gall
2011-02-28 14:39   ` [Caml-list] " David Rajchenbach-Teller
2011-02-28 10:07 ` David Allsopp
     [not found]   ` <20110228.143157.1265982603697554449.Christophe.Troestler+ocaml@umons.ac.be>
2011-02-28 14:11     ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-02-28 14:57       ` Dario Teixeira
2011-02-28 14:13 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-02-28 14:31   ` [Caml-list] " Sylvain Le Gall
2011-02-28 15:09   ` Dario Teixeira [this message]
2011-02-28 15:50   ` [Caml-list] " David Allsopp
2011-03-01  5:49     ` [Caml-list] " Yoriyuki Yamagata
2011-02-28 14:21 ` [Caml-list] " Michael Ekstrand
2011-03-03 15:37 ` Damien Doligez
2011-03-03 16:42   ` Dario Teixeira

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