2008/8/19 Michael Norrish Michael.Norrish@nicta.com.au:
Are there any plans to implement some sort of sensible WideChar signature? (The existing WideChar signature in the Basis is not really a good base on which to build good support here.) Michael.
There was a long discussion on the mlton list in November 2005, seemingly leading to no conclusion:
http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2005-November/thread.html
See the "[Sml-basis-discuss] Unicode and WideChar support" and the "Unicode / WideChar" threads.
Another starting point could be Aaron Turon's ml-ulex lexer which handles unicode input.
- Gergely