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Subject: Re: Is there a lex utility for Ada that handles unicode?
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Martin Dowie wrote:
> 
> 
> Alex and Ayacc:
> http://www.iste.uni-stuttgart.de/ps/ada-software/html/tools.html
> 
> <Warning>
> I've never even looked at them! :-)
> </Warning>
> 
> Cheers

I've used Alex and Ayacc. They are rather close to Lex / Yacc. Lex and 
Yacc, however, are designed to work with 8 bit characters, and Alex / 
Ayacc inherit that design. The parsing of Unicode sources require a 
different set of tools.

> -- Martin


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