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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



  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-14  8:33 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
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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