A bug-fix 12 years in the making: Windows Unicode Support in OCaml 4.06.0

http://www.dra27.uk/blog/platform/2017/10/30/ocaml-unicode.html

by unhammer • 9 years ago

85 13 9 years ago

Very detailed article.

scardine• 9 years ago

Less than acceptable support for Unicode or it being a second class citizen is the most frequent reason why I ditch some interesting "exotic" languages.

hfjdkare• 9 years ago

Note that the key word here is "Windows", not "OCaml".

Less than acceptable support for Unicode or it being a second class citizen is the most frequent reason why I ditch some popular operating systems.

abiox• 9 years ago

Note that the key word here is "Windows", not "OCaml".

why is that?

ernst_klim• 9 years ago

What do you mean by that? A few langs support UTF-{8,16LE,16BE,32LE,32BE} + normalization out of the box: rust, c++, python, go, they all require library for that.

willtim• 9 years ago

The corollary to that is that these "exotic languages" are often such an improvement over the mainstream offerings, that such inconveniences have not prevented adoption in many cases.

A bug-fix 12 years in the making: Windows Unicode Support in OCaml 4.06.0

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