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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:52:06 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada and UTF-8
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skylendar wrote:
> An iso8859-1 ascii string can easily be converted into a Wide_String
> with the function To_Wide_String().
> 
> But I need to retrieve the UTF-8 image of such a Wide_String, and I
> don't know how to do that.

This should become available with more recent compilers.
Ada 2005 supports UTF-8 via ISO 10646.
Meanwhile you can find implementations of Wide_String to UTF-8 String
in the GNAT sources, in XML/Ada, and elsewhere.
There is also EAStrings and AdaCL.

Georg