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From: xavier.serrand@free.fr (Xavier Serrand)
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Subject: Re: Latin_1 and portability
Date: 10 Dec 2003 14:00:02 -0800
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Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message news:<br7814$3ia$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>...
> Xavier Serrand <xavier.serrand@free.fr> wrote:
> : Hello,
> : 
> : For return (or enter)
> : 
> : when using Text_Io.Get_Immediate (E);
> : 
> : on UNIX or Linux Suse Character'Pos (E) = 10
> : on Windows 2000 Character'Pos (E) = 13
> : 
> : How can I manage to work properly ...
> : Do i have to parametrize my application reading characters from a file
> : ... and looking at the values recognized by the functions ... Is there
> : anothers means ?
> 
> Do you read the characters from the keyboard?
> And had you pressed RETURN in the above example?
> 
> If so, in order to be prepared for a variety of keyboards and
> systems and character handling done by systems or run time
> libraries, you can hide the details of what character you
> will get for RETURN.
> If you know that you will either get Latin_1.CR or Latin_1.LF,
> and both Characters have the same meaning in your application, they
> both could be mapped to the same character by a wrapper function,
> for example.

Hello Mister Georg Bauhaus,

First, I read characters from the keyboard, and i've pressed RETURN...
Thanks for this advise... i actually don't need to make differences
between  CR and LF.

Xavier SERRAND