Re: [Caml-list] GSoC: better UTF-8 support

[David Rajchenbach-Teller <David.Teller@ens-lyon.org>]

Don't forget to check OCaml Batteries Included. Some of the work is already done (including an extended printf that handles UTF-8 and is further user-extensible).

Cheers,
 David

On Feb 28, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Daniel Bünzli wrote:

>> - A flag (-utf8 ?) to the compilers should be added so that errors
>>  locations are correct in presence of UTF-8 strings [the programmer
>>  restricting himself to ASCII identifiers].
> 
> Alain mentioned that the patch would only be a few lines long.
> 
>> - ocamldoc: while an UTF-8 aware doc-generator is very easy to write,
>>  it would be nice to be able to parametrize any of them with the
>>  correct charset (using again the -utf8 flag ?)
> 
> http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=5066
> 
>> - UTF8.Char and UTF8.String modules should be written with the same
>>  interface as Char and String.  [Camomile should be adapted
>>  consequently.]
> 
> Is it a good idea to replicate the poor interface that the module Char
> and String represent to manipulate strings ?
> 
>> - Graphics: UTF-8 text printing
> 
> Are there really a lot of people using the Graphics module ?
> 
>> - Str: (character ranges)
> 
> This would be the only interesting thing to me.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
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