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

[Yamagata Y. <yor...@mb...>]

From: Richard Jones <ri...@an...>
Subject: Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Future of ExtLib
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:20:16 +0000

> 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.

I could contribute this.  I have working code for Camomile.  But, it
requires small C code to call ISO-C functions.  What do you think,
Nocolas?

Windows (proper) supports all ISO-C functions?  and (for the future
reference) how about strcol?

In addition, I'm thinking of UTF-16 support (for Windows and Java)  A
major problem is lack of 16-bit interger array in OCaml.  We could use
a string and do type-cast when it is passed to C functions.  This
would  involve detecting endianness in installtion time and providing
some C-macros.

Alternatively, we could use Bigarray, but Bigarray is not efficient.

I'm interested in other people's opinions.

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Yamagata Yoriyuki