Re: Hebrew language character set

[Jean-Marc Bourguet <jbourguet@free.fr>]

Paul Storm wrote:
> 
> For those that are interested, I produce code that (I think) produces
> a Hebrew character.  Here is the code:
> 
> with Ada.Characters.Handling; use Ada.Characters.Handling;
> with Ada.Wide_Text_IO; use Ada.Wide_Text_IO;
> 
> procedure aleph is
> begin
>   Ada.Wide_Text_IO.Put (Item => Wide_Character'Val(1488));
> end aleph;
> 
> end of code
> 
> Here is the output.
> 
> ["05D0"]
> 
> end of output
> 
> 1448 decimal is 05D0 hexidecimal.
> 
> I said think produces.  I am thinking that my display showed the
> character as a code due to the lack of support for that character
> (set) on my system.  Can anyone confirm this for me?  Does that make
> sense?

I think this is one of the way gnat produces (and accept) wide
character.  You should be able to choose the format you want with the
FORM parameter.  Check the reference manual, there is a whole section on
wide characters.

-- Jean-Marc