Re: Character Sets (plain text police report)

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message
> news:3DE9F24E.3010002@nbi.dk...


> My understanding was that the 16 bit characters covered most of the
> practical uses one would find in modern languages.

There is, as I understand it, some disagreement with that 
explanation, if you ask a native Korean, Chinese or Japanese.

> So possibly if there was some kind of variant of Text_IO that dealt with
> UTF-8 files, it might be useful.

Yes, but that is something I should be able to write myself.

 > You'd need special data types and
> operations, but that wouldn't be insurmountable.

Agreed.

>>But it would be nice, if one could demand that
>>compilers can handle UTF-8 or raw 32-bit ISO-10646 encoded
>>source files.
> 
> That sounds like an implementation issue.

Yes.

 > (You're talking about the Ada
> compiler eating Ada source that is in UTF-8? No reason that can't be done
> without a language revision.)

Yes and yes.

Jacob
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