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diff --git a/lib/unicode.mli b/lib/unicode.mli
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+++ b/lib/unicode.mli
@@ -8,21 +8,35 @@
(** Unicode utilities *)
-type status = Letter | IdentPart | Symbol
+type status = Letter | IdentPart | Symbol | Unknown
-exception Unsupported
-
-(** Classify a unicode char into 3 classes, or raise [Unsupported] *)
+(** Classify a unicode char into 3 classes or unknown. *)
val classify : int -> status
-(** Check whether a given string be used as a legal identifier.
- - [None] means yes
- - [Some (b,s)] means no, with explanation [s] and severity [b] *)
+(** Return [None] if a given string can be used as a (Coq) identifier.
+ Return [Some (b,s)] otherwise, where [s] is an explanation and [b] is severity. *)
val ident_refutation : string -> (bool * string) option
-(** First char of a string, converted to lowercase *)
+(** First char of a string, converted to lowercase
+ @raise Assert_failure if the input string is empty. *)
val lowercase_first_char : string -> string
-(** For extraction, turn a unicode string into an ascii-only one *)
+(** Return [true] if all UTF-8 characters in the input string are just plain
+ ASCII characters. Returns [false] otherwise. *)
val is_basic_ascii : string -> bool
+
+(** [ascii_of_ident s] maps UTF-8 string to a string composed solely from ASCII
+ characters. The non-ASCII characters are translated to ["_UUxxxx_"] where
+ {i xxxx} is the Unicode index of the character in hexadecimal (from four
+ to six hex digits). To avoid potential name clashes, any preexisting
+ substring ["_UU"] is turned into ["_UUU"]. *)
val ascii_of_ident : string -> string
+
+(** Validate an UTF-8 string *)
+val is_utf8 : string -> bool
+
+(** Return the length of a valid UTF-8 string. *)
+val utf8_length : string -> int
+
+(** Variant of {!String.sub} for UTF-8 strings. *)
+val utf8_sub : string -> int -> int -> string