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From: beckwb@ois.com (R. William Beckwith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada + Multi-Byte/Wide Chars = Modern Language?
Date: 25 Jan 1995 22:36:32 -0500
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Date: 1995-01-25T22:36:32-05:00
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Richard L. Goerwitz (goer@quads.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: Ada95 looks to be a useful language.

It is.

: One question, though:  Does it fully support wide/multi-byte char-
: acters?  For example, am I free to write apps that utilize UTF-8
: or Unicode?  Will I be able to interface these programs with the
: outside world (e.g., X)?  Does GNAT support these features?

There is a multi-byte character type built into Ada95 called
Wide_Character.

This Wide_Character type maps nicely to Xlib's wchar_t type
(we did this in our Ada95 X11R6 multi-threaded Xlib binding). 

wchar_t is used in Xlib's XIMText struct and the Xwc... functions.

... Bill