Re: Text_IO on WinNT problem

[Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>]

David Starner wrote:

> Looking at the GNAT Reference manual, under Wide_Text_IO, there's no way
> to load it in as Wide_Character. There's no standard way to handle it
> with Text_IO - this seems like a fairly unusual case - but you could
> always try reading them in one by one and discarding half of them.

See Ada.Characters.Handling,  ALRM, Annex A.3.2

      function To_Character(Item : in Wide_Character;
                                           Substitute : in Character := ' ')
return Character;

and other useful functions for this kind of thing.

Richard Riehle
richard@adaworks.com