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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: [ranting] Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:57:17 +0100
Date: 2007-11-13T09:50:18+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1pkwbr5s12cf9$.9k2umlcxqzbr.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3343563.psPA6e9Oqh@linux1.krischik.com

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:53:10 +0100, Martin Krischik wrote:

> But what really saddens me is the fact that Ada 2005 still uses String for
> filenames. I just found out that Ada.Directories.Search chokes on filenames
> with wide characters. Since Windows uses UTF-16 for filenames even a simple
> Latin-1 "�" is in that group.

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)

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-13  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-12 19:53 [ranting] Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories Martin Krischik
2007-11-13  8:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2007-11-13  9:52   ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-13 21:08   ` Pascal Obry
2007-11-14  8:33     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-14  8:56       ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-14  9:31         ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 11:19           ` Vadim Godunko
2007-11-14 14:22             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-14 20:15               ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-15  8:37                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-14 13:15           ` [ranting] " Martin Krischik
2007-11-14 13:31             ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 14:36               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-14 15:13                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 15:35                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-14 16:22                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 19:32                     ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-15  8:54                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-16  6:54                         ` Randy Brukardt
2007-11-14 19:23                   ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-14 20:05                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-14 19:21                 ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-14  9:36         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-14 18:38           ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-15  1:51             ` John W. Kennedy
2007-11-15  9:08             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-11-14  8:49     ` Martin Krischik
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