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From: David Smith <david.smith@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Wide Character Problem in Ada.Numerics
Date: 26 Apr 2007 19:51:55 -0700
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> I still don't understand why this would work...  upper half of what?
> I'd assume "upper-half" refers to characters in the 16#A0#..16#FF#
> range, but the original poster had problems when it processed a Greek
> "pi" in a runtime source, which isn't in the upper half of anything
> (unless you count ISO-8859-7, the Greek alphabet!).  It's certainly
> not anywhere in Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1).  And I doubt that "upper-half"
> means the upper half of Unicode (16#8000#..16#FFFD#?), which I believe
> would start somewhere in the middle of the Chinese character set.  So
> why would -gnatif magically make pi work?  Mighty strange.........

This is really what I was asking.

-Dave