From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Q: Localizing type and package references
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 09:28:17 +0100
Date: 2014-01-06T09:28:17+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10wiar80v63iw$.8blcffaz4ix6$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7d03f160-7f52-4870-b4b3-a03d5b351bcb@googlegroups.com
On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 15:55:05 -0800 (PST), b.mcguinness747@gmail.com wrote:
> I want to write an Ada program using the Wide_Character type, but I might
> want to move to Wide_Wide_Character later on.
I would not do that. Wide_Wide_Character is pretty much useless from either
point of view. Stay with Character and use it as UTF-8 rather than Latin-1.
P.S. Neither Windows nor Linux use Wide_Wide_Character in their API.
Windows is ASCII/UTF-16, Linux is UTF-8.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2014-01-05 23:55 Q: Localizing type and package references b.mcguinness747
2014-01-06 1:29 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-06 8:05 ` Simon Wright
2014-01-06 8:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2014-01-06 20:19 ` Florian Weimer
2014-01-19 12:04 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2014-01-06 22:02 ` b.mcguinness747
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