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From: beckwb@ois.com (R. William Beckwith)
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Subject: Re: Ada + Multi-Byte/Wide Chars = Modern Language?
Date: 27 Jan 1995 20:56:35 -0500
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Gentle (gentle@cnj.digex.net) wrote:

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

A two-byte character type built into the Ada95 language.  LRM, Standard pkg:

    -- The declaration of type Wide_Character is based on the standard
    -- ISO 10646 BMP character set.  The first 256 positions have the
    -- same contents as type Character.  See 3.5.2.

    type Wide_Character is (nul, soh ... FFFE, FFFF);

    ...

    type Wide_String is array(Positive range <>) of Wide_Character;
    pragma Pack(Wide_String);

... Bill