Re: Ada.Directories and UTF-8 encoding ?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 05:37:27 -0800 (PST), gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com wrote:

> Question: is there a support for UTF-8-encoded file names in
> Ada.Directories, either mentioned in the RM 2005, 2012, or in some
> implementations ?

I am using GIO bindings instead of Ada.Directories for this reason.

> For instance only Copy_File has a Form parameter and on GNAT GPL 2012 it
> seems to ignore "encoding=utf-8".

Form is a system-dependent parameter.

> For a directory search using Search it would be nice to have utf-8 working
> (not tested yet; I'll give a try with the Rosetta code:
> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Walk_a_directory/Recursively#Ada ). 

I don't remember if I tested it for that when I wrote it. It is very
unlikely that Windows implementation uses UTF-8. I guess it is ASCII
(A-calls of Win32 API), which GNAT's implementation of Ada.Directories
makes = it is broken.

You could use GIO bindings, they should work as expected in a
system-independent way. They also support MIME types. See Dir_Open,
Dir_Read_Name, Dir_Close.

http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/gtkada_contributions.htm#Gtk.Missed.Dir_Open

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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