On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:04:42 +0200
Romain Bardou <Romain.Bardou@lri.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> If I put some unicode characters inside an ocamldoc comment, it is 
> copied as is, but the browser does not print them correctly because the 
> page header does not say that the page is encoded using unicode.
> 
> Is there a way I can change the header of the generated pages 
> automatically to change the encoding information?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Romain Bardou
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I see two easy solutions:

1. Something like
  sed 's:iso-8859-1:UTF-8:'
 on each ocamldoc-generated html file

2. or create and use your own ocamldoc-generator as explained here:
    http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual029.html#toc112
In this generator, just set the character_encoding field something else
than the default which is
 "<meta content=\"text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\">\n"

Somehting like the following code should to the trick:
class my_doc_gen =
  object
    initializer
       character_encoding <-
       "<meta content=\"text/html; charset=\"UTF-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\">\n"
  end

let my_generator = new my_doc_gen
let _ = Odoc_args.set_doc_generator (my_generator :> Odoc_args.doc_generator)

(code not tested)

Hope this helps,

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