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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Why no Ada.Wide_Directories?
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:47:49 -0700 (PDT), ytomino wrote:

> But other libraries in the standard are explicitly defined as Latin-1.
> It's certain that Ada.Character.Handling.To_Upper breaks UTF-8.
> So we can not use almost subprograms in Ada.Characters and Ada.Strings
> for handling file names.

Right, it is lot more than just Ada.Directories. I have implemented UTF-8
versions of Ada.Strings.Handling and Ada.Strings.Maps: sets and maps of
characters, case conversions, character characterization, superscript and
subscript integer I/O.

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