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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: [ranting] Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:36:41 +0100
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:56:42 +0100, Martin Krischik wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov schrieb:
> 
>> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:08:17 +0100, Pascal Obry wrote:
>> 
>>> Dmitry A. Kazakov a �crit :
>> 
>>>> Actually Windows has xxxA and xxxW versions of the API calls. Does Win32Ada
>>>> reflect that? The bindings to the xxxW subprograms should use Wide_String.
>>>> (I guess that Windows is UCS-2, not UTF-16)
>>> AFAIK the xxxW version of the API is UTF-16.
>> 
>> In that case I would drop the mess in Win32Ada and make a thin UTF-8 layer
>> above with plain String as parameters.
>> 
>> I would also explicitly require UTF-8 encoding for Full_Name and
>> Simple_Name in Ada.Directories.
> 
> Not just Ada.Directories - any package where a file name is needed.
> And not just Win32 - any platform which supports UTF-8 file names.

Sure.

One formal problem is that Character is specified as Latin-1. Actually
Character should be Universal_Integer as nobody knows how many characters
there exist. (Still hoping their number will be at least countable. (:-))
The String element should then be Octet rather than Character.

Though, practically, I doubt that anybody would much care.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
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