From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [ranting] Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:38:32 +0100
Date: 2007-11-14T19:38:32+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1220629.5SNnNGaTIf@linux1.krischik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 19x2od13tuh2a$.1lpcr349f44yp$.dlg@40tude.net
Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> Not just Ada.Directories - any package where a file name is needed.
>> And not just Win32 - any platform which supports UTF-8 file names.
>
> Sure.
>
> One formal problem is that Character is specified as Latin-1.
Sure - but then there is allways the BOM [1] 16#EFBBBF# would mark the
string UTF-8. But I guess it would be an enormous effort to support two
file name string types - one Latin-1 and another UTF-8 - and to find out
which one you got you need the check the first 3 characters.
Martin
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-12 19:53 [ranting] Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories Martin Krischik
2007-11-13 8:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-13 9:52 ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-13 21:08 ` Pascal Obry
2007-11-14 8:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-14 8:56 ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-14 9:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 11:19 ` Vadim Godunko
2007-11-14 14:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-14 20:15 ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-15 8:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-14 13:15 ` [ranting] " Martin Krischik
2007-11-14 13:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 14:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-14 15:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 15:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-14 16:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 19:32 ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-15 8:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-16 6:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-11-14 19:23 ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-14 20:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 19:21 ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-14 9:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-14 18:38 ` Martin Krischik [this message]
2007-11-15 1:51 ` John W. Kennedy
2007-11-15 9:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-14 8:49 ` Martin Krischik
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