Re: [ranting] Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov schrieb:

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:08:17 +0100, Pascal Obry wrote:
> 
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
> 
>>> Actually Windows has xxxA and xxxW versions of the API calls. Does Win32Ada
>>> reflect that? The bindings to the xxxW subprograms should use Wide_String.
>>> (I guess that Windows is UCS-2, not UTF-16)
>> AFAIK the xxxW version of the API is UTF-16.
> 
> In that case I would drop the mess in Win32Ada and make a thin UTF-8 layer
> above with plain String as parameters.
> 
> I would also explicitly require UTF-8 encoding for Full_Name and
> Simple_Name in Ada.Directories.

Not just Ada.Directories - any package where a file name is needed.
And not just Win32 - any platform which supports UTF-8 file names.

> (Introduction of Wide x n_String was so obvious mistake, IMO.)

Introducing Wide_String but then *not* introducing it for file names was
the mistake. If only as an optional features for platforms which support
Wide_String (or Wide_Wide_Sting) file names.

In 95 it was understandable but in 2005 localised file name have become
standard and not supporting them a big mistake.

Martin

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