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

[Patrick M D. <pa...@wa...>]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:

> 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.
>
> > 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).
>
> > 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.

I'm not aware of the implementation details for the Netmapping module.
Would it be possible to add Japanese encodings to that? If that is
possible to do, I'm sure it would be a welcome addition to the
Netstring code.

I also agree with Gerd's analysis regarding UCS and UTF-8. Any particular
reasons for UCS?

Patrick