[MLton] unicode
Matthew Fluet
fluet@cs.cornell.edu
Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:20:58 -0400 (EDT)
> Neither is there real support for Unicode in the Standard ML Basis Library.
> The general consensus (which includes the opinions of the editors of the
> Basis Library) is that the LargeChar structure is insufficient for the
> purposes of Unicode.
Sorry, minor mistake in the above: The "WideChar" structure is
insufficient for the purposes of Unicode. There is no "LargeChar"
structure, which in itself is a deficiency, since a programmer may not
program against the largest supported character size.