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From: Joel VanLaven <jvl@ocsystems.com>
Subject: Re: Ada and UNICODE?
Date: 1998/05/18
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Date: 1998-05-18T00:00:00+00:00
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Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
: W A Whitaker asks

: <<There is also a question about support tools, e.g., keyboard entry that
: does not require four fingers.
: >>

: GNAT supports all the coding methods that are commonly used in Japan
: and China, including EUC and Shift-JIS.

Since we are telling what we support... :)

OC Systems supports the UTF-8 coding method for UNICODE (i.e. ISO).  We
felt that the ISO standard was the intention for wide_characters and so
chose the standard text (non-wide character) representation of UNICODE.
UTF-8 is supported by Netscape and might become part of the next revision
of html.

Other than Netscape I am unsure about the availability of tools and such
related to UTF-8 (or unicode at all).  I think that newer versions of
operating systems are coming out (or will come out) with some sort of
support for wide_characters but I think that despite the amount of time
this has been an issue it is still in its infancy.

-- Joel VanLaven
-- (only partially speaking for OC Systems)