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From: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Subject: Re: Ada + Multi-Byte/Wide Chars = Modern Language?
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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 17:17:12 GMT
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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?

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