[MLton] Unicode... again

[skaller]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 15:05 -0600, Matthew Fluet wrote:
> > Once again I find myself needing Unicode in MLton. 
> 
> Just to orient the discussion of "what to implement where": you find 
> yourself needing to process Unicode files with an SML program compiled 
> by MLton /or/ you find yourself needing to have Unicode strings in an 
> SML program compiled by MLton.
> 
> The former doesn't require any changes to the compiler (not they 
> wouldn't be welcome).

The two things are often coupled by the need for literal text.
The workaround (translating integer literals) can be very annoying
to do and leave your program hard to read.

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John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
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