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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [ranting] Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:38:32 +0100
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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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