Re: [Ocamlnet-devel] an experimental impelmentation of Unicode support.

[Gerd S. <in...@ge...>]

On 2001.11.14 00:10 YAMAGATA yoriyuki wrote:
> It is not directly related to ocamlnet, but I think you may be
> interest in it, especially because it provides Japanese encoding
> support.

I left this out in netstring because I don't know very much about
Japanese encodings and hoped that somebody would do it.

> I have made an experimental library for Unicode support, which
> currently provides the following modules.
> 
> 1) Uchar : a bare minimal implementation of ISO-UCS characters.
> 2) Ustring : a mutable string for UCS characters.
> 3) Utext : an immutable string for UCS characters.
> 4) Ubuffer : an extensible buffer for UCS characters.

Do you think this is the way to go? There is very much code that does
not
work with UCS characters, e.g. ocaml string literals, ocamllex, regexp
engines etc. and everything built from this tools. Isn't it better to
use UTF-8?

> 5) Char_encoding : an implementation of various character encodings,
> as
> 	UTF-8, UTF16-BE/LE, All encodings provided Netmapping module
> in
> 	Netstring library, All major Japanese encodings (iso-2022-jp,
> 	euc-jp, sjis).

Cool.

> you can obtain this from
>     http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yoriyuki/camomile.tar.gz
> 
> If someone is interested in development of this library, I will make a
> Sourceforge project.  Contribution and comments are welcome.

Personally, I am not interested, but I am quite sure this project finds
its
audience.

Gerd
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