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From: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Subject: Re: Ada + Multi-Byte/Wide Chars = Modern Language?
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 17:17:12 GMT
Date: 1995-01-29T17:17:12+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1995Jan29.171712.4531@midway.uchicago.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3gc88j$7i1@gamma.ois.com

In R. William Beckwith writes:
>
>    -- The declaration of type Wide_Character is based on the standard
>    -- ISO 10646 BMP character set.  The first 256 positions have the
>    -- same contents as type Character.  See 3.5.2.
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What is meant by "same contents"?  There are several multi-byte and wide
character standards.  By using the word "contents" here is the standard
implying that type Character is assumed to encode specific glyphs?

-- 

   Richard L. Goerwitz     ***      goer@midway.uchicago.edu



  reply	other threads:[~1995-01-29 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-01-23 18:32 Ada + Multi-Byte/Wide Chars = Modern Language? Richard L. Goerwitz
1995-01-24 19:28 ` Robert Dewar
1995-01-26 12:56   ` Gentle
1995-01-28  1:56     ` R. William Beckwith
1995-01-29 17:17       ` Richard L. Goerwitz [this message]
1995-01-30 17:27         ` Vincent Broman
1995-02-01 12:13         ` Robert Dewar
1995-02-02  2:53         ` Tucker Taft
     [not found]   ` <1995Jan27.040708.22494@midway.uchicago.edu>
1995-01-28 18:30     ` Robert Dewar
1995-01-26  3:36 ` R. William Beckwith
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