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Date: | 2007-03-08 (21:10) |
From: | Richard Jones <rich@a...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] accented letters in identifiers |
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:00:31AM +0100, Mattias Engdegård wrote: > And latin-1 is a bit quaint these days; it's not even enough for French. > Let's support utf-8! Apart from being vastly more linguistically > inclusive, it would allow us scientific programmers to use Greek letters. Yes, UTF-8 please! Perl has allowed UTF-8 for quite a few years now - eg. you can have functions with Chinese or Japanese names. Of course it's not directly backwards-compatible with existing files, but I'm sure a compiler flag could sort that out. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat