Hello, On 14-10-2010, Paul Steckler <st...@stecksoft.com> wrote: > A couple of weeks ago or so, I asked about using OCaml file primitives > with the Camomile library for Unicode > on Windows. I thought I'd update people on the list about my > resolution of these issues. > > I decided to make the application UTF-8 throughout, so that the string > type always means UTF-8 -- OK, there > are a few exceptions to that rule. The SQLite3 library already deals > with UTF-8 in a graceful way, The same is > true for the C/C++ parsing library I'm using. That leaves the OCaml > library procedures, like open_in and open_out, > which definitely don't handle Unicode filenames on Windows. > > I took the OCaml sources and made modified versions of functions, like > file_exists, open_in, and so on, > that convert filenames from UTF-8 to UTF-16 and then used "wide" > versions of the underlying Win32 > primitives. In some cases, I had to convert UTF-16 back to UTF-8. > The Win32 functions MultiByteToWideChar > and WideCharToMultiByte handle those conversions nicely. I link in > these new functions, named > file_exists_win32, open_in_win32, etc., and everything works a treat. >
Would it be possible to publish them as an external library? Thanks for the update Sylvain Le Gall _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
