RE: [Caml-list] OCaml 4.06.0+rc1

[David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>]

Gabriel Scherer wrote:
> Dear OCaml users,
> 
> We have created a first release candidate of the upcoming OCaml 4.06.0
> release for your repeated testing pleasure. It is available as opam
> switches 4.06.0.+rc1 (or +rc1+flambda, etc.)
> 
>   opam switch 4.06.0+rc1
> 
> or as source archives at
> 
>   http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-4.06/
> 
> The Changelog since 4.05.0 is available at
> 
>   http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-
> 4.06/notes/Changes.4.06.0+rc1.txt

One of the big changes for the native Windows ports of OCaml is that we now have support for UTF-8 filenames in the runtime.

TL;DR functions like Sys.readdir no longer return garbage (or at best locale-specific strings).

I wrote up a post about the details of this large patch at  http://www.dra27.uk/blog/platform/2017/10/30/ocaml-unicode.html, which also includes details on compiling OCaml on Windows, as the instructions have altered slightly with 4.06.0.

Some of the fruits of this labour can be seen in our Camel and Cyrillic-laden AppVeyor logs, for example https://ci.appveyor.com/project/avsm/ocaml/build/1.0.4836

Happy Ĥǻḉḱḯṋḡ!


David