Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Future of ExtLib

[Richard J. <ri...@an...>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:37:14PM -0600, Brian Hurt wrote:
> 1) Unicode or no unicode?  It's not that converting to/from unicode into 
> one of the utf- formats is so hard, it's just that now a stream of 
> characters is a different concept than a stream of bytes, with different 
> filters working on different types streams.  And a conversion object stuck 
> in between.  All pipes would now be at least three objects deep 
> (formatter, unicode conversion, source/sink), instead of just two.

UTF-8 support should be there, and should be driven from the LANG /
LC_* / locale.  It's a non-trivial amount of work to get this to work
of course.

Rich.

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