[MLton] Unicode / WideChar

[Wesley W. Terpstra]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:52:23PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Andreas Rossberg:
> 
> > That may well be true. I had the SML library spec and its OS.Path in 
> > mind, which requires file names to be "normalized" to lower case on 
> > Windows, in order to do path resolution (independent of their actual 
> > existence).
> 
> This is wrong anyway.  Windows applications are expected to be
> case-preserving, and some Windows file systems are even
> case-sensitive.

Could you give an example?
What things go wrong on these file systems when you do what the basis
describes? Right now MLton makes paths canonical as the basis requires.

-- 
Wesley W. Terpstra <wesley@terpstra.ca>