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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: [ranting] Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:15:12 +0100
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Georg Bauhaus schrieb:
> Martin Krischik wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> package IConv is
> 
>    -- the missing link to, e.g.
>    -- http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
> 
> end IConv;

Not very helpful for a plug-in which is supposed to run under Windows.

First a plug-in should have a small memory food print and libgnat.dll is
 bad enough as it is.

And then libiconv is a Unix-like tool.

Currently I use Ada.Characters.Conversions - but that won't be all that
useful for UTF8 <-> UTF-16 conventions. Well Win32Ada has some functions
which can do the trick - Only they are Win32 functions and as such a
pain to use.

And

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