From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p1S8ws76018579 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:58:54 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApMBACvyak3RVdS2kGdsb2JhbACEJKIZCBUBAQEBCQkMBxEEIYg/mRyJZIJZhAeJCQEBAwWBIoNEdgSMHYhPOoEVgXM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.62,238,1297033200"; d="scan'208";a="88813252" Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com ([209.85.212.182]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 28 Feb 2011 09:58:48 +0100 Received: by pxi20 with SMTP id 20so849243pxi.27 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:58:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Se4i7WawI1ke18rGjP96OhfHU07osNyMlhk5e2o+4+U=; b=MIpp/jr+VUA+8EePWKzi7GYh03xXdKoWSNDz7Ro4x+7IGuL8oFXYiUF/tPIP1Mf6CC 0/kbNzLgXoei3CcH9PwuJxUiykxfNeXpFHNjEqck/myCjPYSqPXHsQORZa9p8WOAvP/5 zqw1+i+d5Q/UcfkE1ncfWY85lr8c69jfqHRuk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=onQ4aJ65sSN8Alom0vF8SHA8L0kj3cMqrf3nVtgbFu+VCxIrTXm3osMOnDH848WPJ4 FLxrIHGRpNjR1tGvSOV/kjo/9nxGZ29Dgo7U/644FI4HNQVZ5c99ht9/3z1zXaDwwSh3 YOjvUQs9rxPa0EMqDDmOE0ADBqzzEymWAPyzs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.238.9 with SMTP id l9mr4217526wfh.247.1298883525106; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:58:45 -0800 (PST) Sender: daniel.c.buenzli@gmail.com Received: by 10.142.127.3 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:58:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110228.093528.996524125295855263.Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be> References: <20110228.093528.996524125295855263.Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:58:45 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: mDqholhsct5mwcoH8P5n8hfEOfI Message-ID: From: =?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_B=C3=BCnzli?= To: Christophe TROESTLER Cc: OCaml Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by walapai.inria.fr id p1S8ws76018579 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GSoC: better UTF-8 support > - 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