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I am not american and use a european alphabet with more characters. So if I need to handle user input or parse files with data I need unicode handling, so even for non web apps it can be needed.



I am not american and use a european alphabet with more characters. So if I need to handle user input or parse files with data I need unicode handling, so even for non web apps it can be needed.

And yet OCaml is French and its French authors do not feel constrained by the lack of unicode or they would have "scratched their own itch".


In all fairness, OCaml is somewhat historically centered on Latin1 encoding which does include French characters.




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