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From: Hans Marqvardsen <hm@ddre.dk>
Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World
Date: 1999/03/04
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robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> 
> In article <36DD54D2.141B@ddre.dk>,
>   hm@ddre.dk_nospam wrote:
> > I have always found it amazing that the validation suites
> > does not care if IO from the keyboard or to the screen
> > distorts about half of the available graphic characters.
> >
> > EG Put('�') to see a Pound_Sign, on the screen.
> > American Chauvinism !)
> 
> If you have found this amazing, it is because you do not
> understand the situation.
> 
> The RM has *nothing* at all to say about what characters
> look like in the external world. Absolutely NOTHING. A
> validated compiler has no requirements at all in this area.
> 

What really amazes me is that even though good people has spent good
time
designing a validation procedure where specific compilers are
validated for specific operating systems, 
then one of these good people claims that 

1. this procedure may validate combinations that in his own words
behave annoying and silly and undoubtedly would be rejected by the 
marketplace.

2. the validation process would seriously broken, if it were to 
consider these problems.


By the way,  David Bottons Ada treasury has a package Console_io 
       http://www.botton.com/ada/reuse/alphcon.html
that hopefully handles  console-mode IO "correctly".

"correctly" meaning 
press any key, get the corresponding character
put any character, see the corresponding graphic image.