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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Ada + Multi-Byte/Wide Chars = Modern Language?
Date: 28 Jan 1995 13:30:21 -0500
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"Shouldn't this sort of thing [providing access to Unicode] be done by the
 underlying C compiler"

What underlying C compiler, there is no C compiler "underlying" GNAT, and
as has been emphasized in the past, GNAT is in no sense an Ada to C
translator. GNAT does provide full access to unicode, via the wide
character type, including the provision of several source encoding
schemes etc.