From: Gour <gour@atmarama.net>
Subject: Re: Ada & Unicode support
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 08:34:38 +0200
Date: 2014-09-21T08:34:38+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140921083438.559d2c3f@atmarama.ddns.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871tr5x1wf.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:17:36 +0200
Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> You need to distinguish between the character set and encoding of the
> Ada text (which you give to the compiler) and the character set(s) and
> encoding(s) that your program must support.
Right.
> For example, GNAT supports several encodings, including UTF-8 with
> command-line options.
OK, that's enough and glad to hear it.
>The String Encoding package is there to help you transcode text between
>8-bit Latin_1, UTF-8, proper UTF-16 and UTF-32.
Ahh, that was the missing link. Thank you.
> GTK+ and GtkAda treat all strings as UTF-8. If your program uses
> GtkAda, then don't bother transcoding anything and specify that all
> Strings really contain UTF-8.
That's just what we wanted to hear. UTF-8 everywhere and less
complications. :-)
> HTH
Yes, thanks again.
Sincerely,
Gour
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-20 21:36 Ada & Unicode support Gour
2014-09-21 0:17 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-09-21 6:34 ` Gour [this message]
2014-09-21 1:07 ` David Botton
2014-09-21 6:40 ` Gour
2014-09-21 7:27 ` Per Sandberg
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