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From: Stephane Glondu <Stephane.Glondu@c...>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ill-formed "french" character literal. 
Francois Colonna wrote:
> I have a problem with french accents :
> 
> camlc -c lexical_analyzer.ml
> 
> File "lexical_analyzer.ml", line 48, characters 34-38:
>  >       [< '(`A`..`Z` | `a`..`z` | `é` | `è` | `_` as c ) >] ->
>  >                                               ^^^^
> Ill-formed character literal.
> 
> What can I do ?

Are you sure the problem comes with French accents?

Also keep in mind that in UTF-8, 'é' is two bytes, so it is not a valid 
character literal.

-- 
Stephane Glondu