From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: [ranting] Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:33:59 +0100
Date: 2007-11-14T09:26:58+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1vrktz0rlauvu.1nm0xh8n2wl90.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 473A1241.90702@obry.net
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.
(Introduction of Wide x n_String was so obvious mistake, IMO.)
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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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
2007-11-13 9:52 ` Martin Krischik
2007-11-13 21:08 ` Pascal Obry
2007-11-14 8:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
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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