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From: gentle@cnj.digex.net (Gentle)
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Subject: Re: Ada + Multi-Byte/Wide Chars = Modern Language?
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On 24 Jan 1995 14:28:46 -0500, Robert Dewar (dewar@cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
: GNAT supports much of this, providing several different methods for
: encoding wide characters, including JIS, shift-JIS, EUC, and a general
: method allowing arbitrary encoding. We do not yet have Wide_Text_IO
: implemented.

  This may be a silly question, but what exactly is a "wide character"?

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