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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada and UTF-8
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On 27 Apr 2005 15:05:26 -0700, skylendar wrote:

> An iso8859-1 ascii string can easily be converted into a Wide_String
> with the function To_Wide_String().
> 
> But I need to retrieve the UTF-8 image of such a Wide_String, and I
> don't know how to do that.
> 
> Example:
> 
> W : Wide_String := To_Wide_String("accented characters ������");
> 
> then
> 
> S : String := xxx(W);
>
> so that S would contains : "accented characters ééààèè"

http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/strings_edit.htm 

with Strings_Edit.UTF8.Handling;
use  Strings_Edit.UTF8.Handling;
...
S : String := To_UTF8 (W);

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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