From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,43ab55a75a8b5d1
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII
Path: 
 g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!proxad.net!proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:13:58 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Organization: elsewhere
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Macintosh/20060530)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: System.WCh_Cnv
References: <e9302j$f70$1@news521.nifty.com>
   <3082414.k9Jeq3hKxq@linux1.krischik.com>
   <1152811469.003475.301520@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
   <HXytg.8972$E02.2845@newsb.telia.net>
 <1152862832.649761.205770@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
In-Reply-To: <1152862832.649761.205770@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-ID: <44b7c26e$0$26254$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Jul 2006 18:12:31 MEST
NNTP-Posting-Host: eee08a27.newsread2.arcor-online.net
X-Trace: 
 DXC=l3^57c20h8aa1IKbSTkC[iQ5U85hF6f;djW\KbG]kaMhGSi?jHD8GO`S]5eB`h0:;jhP3YJKgE\jlD;7hMCf>WWmA14d]]KebZk
X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de
Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5697
Date: 2006-07-14T18:12:31+02:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Martin Krischik wrote:
> Bj�rn Persson schrieb:
> 
>> Let's get some things straight so that we'll understand each other
>> better. Unicode defines several character encodings. When you write
>> "Unicode", do you mean UTF-8, UTF-16, UCS-4 (also called UTF-32) or
>> UCS-2? Ada's Wide_String is UCS-2 and Wide_Wide_String is UCS-4.
> 
> I wonder about that. UCS character set are fixed length and UTF
> character sets are variable lengt. So is it rigth  to say that  UCS-4
> is UTF-32?

UTF is a UCS Tranformation Format.
UCS is the Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set.
UCS-4 is the canonical form of the UCS

Not sure whether UCS has anything to say about endianness.
UTF has.


-- Georg