[MLton] Unicode / WideChar

[Adam Goode]

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On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 13:06 +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> ...                                             Also, the
> String2 is UCS2, not UTF-16. That means if you try to put
> in a character that is > 65536, you get exception Chr. ...

Question: why is String2 not UTF-16? Is this specified somehow in the
basis? Is it like this:

  String1  =3D ASCII
  String2  =3D BMP (Unicode Plane 0)
  String4  =3D Full Unicode

Just wondering...


Thanks,

Adam



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