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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: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:57:17 +0100
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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)

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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