Re: Newbie questions re Unicode (1)

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Monday, July 13, 2020 at 10:59:46 AM UTC-6, Simon Wright wrote:
> Shark8  writes:
> 
> > Typically what I do here is:
> > (1) Right click the text-area in GPS, select properties; in the dialog
> > change the setting "character-set" to "Unicode UTF-8".
> > (2) At the top of the file, after "Pragma Ada_2012;" put " Pragma
> > Wide_Character_Encoding(UTF8);"
> > (3) Edit Project Properties: under Build, Switches, Ada there's a
> > text-box at the bottom; append "-gnatw8".
> 
> Do you have to do all 3?
> 
> Personally I wouldn't bother with (2) because (a) it's the default;
> unless (b) you're using GNAT CE, in which case it's the only
> possibility!

#2 isn't strictly necessary, no.
But if you're not using Pragma Restrictions( NO_IMPLEMENTATION_DEFINED_PRAGMAS ); it's nice to have in the program-text what the character-set is.