Re: Hebrew language character set

[Paul Storm <paul.a.storm@lmco.com>]

I modified my program as follows, [begin 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(16#0590#));
end aleph;

[end code]

Now I get the following results,

D:\TEMP>gnatmake -gnatW8 aleph.adb
gcc -c -gnatW8 aleph.adb
gnatbind -x aleph.ali
gnatlink aleph.ali

D:\TEMP>aleph.exe
+�

I made some mistake in coding my character in decimal instead of hex??

I found this in the GNAT User's Guide, btw,

-gnatWe 
Specify the method of encoding for wide characters. e is one of the
following: 
h Hex encoding (brackets coding also recognized) 
u Upper half encoding (brackets encoding also recognized) 
s Shift/JIS encoding (brackets encoding also recognized) 
e EUC encoding (brackets encoding also recognized) 
8 UTF-8 encoding (brackets encoding also recognized) 
b Brackets encoding only (default value) 

For full details on the these encoding methods see See section Wide
Character Encodings. Note that brackets coding is always accepted, even
if one of the other options is specified, so for example -gnatW8
specifies that both brackets and UTF-8 encodings will be recognized. The
units that are with'ed directly or indirectly will be scanned using the
specified representation scheme, and so if one of the non-brackets
scheme is used, it must be used consistently throughout the program.
However, since brackets encoding is always recognized, it may be
conveniently used in standard libraries, allowing these libraries to be
used with any of the available coding schemes. scheme. If no -gnatW?
parameter is present, then the default representation is Brackets
encoding only. Note that the wide character representation that is
specified (explicitly or by default) for the main program also acts as
the default encoding used for Wide_Text_IO files if not specifically
overridden by a WCEM form parameter. 

Paul Storm