Re: gnat 2011 - macbook

[Blady <p.p11@orange.fr>]

Le lundi 11 juin 2012 21:44:27 UTC+2, Blady a écrit :
> Le vendredi 25 mai 2012 12:13:23 UTC+2, RasikaSr...@gmail.com a écrit :
> > all
> > 
> > I have a program that reads a text file using text_io.get_line.
> > 
> > It would appear that on the mac, the line terminator  CR are not
> > digested by the get_line. On windows it seems that the CR/LF is
> > handled and are not returned to the application. The test data file I
> > am using originated in a Windows system.
> > 
> > Is this an expected behavior?
> > 
> > thanks, srini
> 
> Hi, yes it's clearly a drawback to deal with many different text formats for line terminator and  accentuated letters.
> It should be processed automatically without care about format like many text editors guess the good format.
> In 2005, I modified GNAT Text_IO lib with awareness to Mac CR line terminators and MacRoman characters.
> See /Users/blady/Documents/Synchro/Blady/alpha.html
> But I don't really use it because I switched to UTF-8 for my source code with Mac OS X.
> And for remaining old Mac files I use TextWrangler to convert them.
> http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
> 
> HTH, Pascal.

With Internet URL should be better:
http://blady.pagesperso-orange.fr/alpha.html
And for French readers:
http://blady.pagesperso-orange.fr/creations.html#ada-text-io
Regards, Pascal.