unicode

unicode

[Szymon Guz]

Hi,
what is the situation with using unicode (utf8) in Ada programs ?

regards
Szymon Guz

Re: unicode

[Björn Persson]

Szymon Guz wrote:

> what is the situation with using unicode (utf8) in Ada programs ?

Ada 95 supports two character encodings: ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1) in the 
types Character and String, and UCS-2 in Wide_Character and Wide_String. 
I hear Ada 200Y will have a four-byte character type, so it will support 
UCS-4 (UTF-32). For UTF-8 you could use arrays of Interfaces.Unsigned_8, 
or you could declare your strings as String and be *very* careful so 
they don't get interpreted as Latin 1. Or you could use EAstrings, part 
of AdaCL (http://sourceforge.net/projects/adacl), and get support for 
all encodings with automagic conversion - at lest on Gnu-based systems 
(more accurately any system that has the iconv function); Windows 
support is still on the to-do list. Download it from CVS to get IO and 
the latest improvements.

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Re: unicode

[Martin Krischik]

Szymon Guz wrote:

> Hi,
> what is the situation with using unicode (utf8) in Ada programs ?

Use XML/Ada

With Regards

Martin
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Re: unicode

[Steve]

XML/Ada includes what appears to be extensive support for Unicode.

http://libre.act-europe.fr/xmlada/

Steve
(The Duck)

"Szymon Guz" <guzo@stud.ics.p.lodz.pl> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> what is the situation with using unicode (utf8) in Ada programs ?
>
> regards
> Szymon Guz