Re: strange behaviour of utf-8 files

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On 16.11.13 16:09, Stoik wrote:

> Thanks for the answer. Your advice is certainly sound, but not very satisfactory. The whole purpose of utf-8 is to make
> things portable across platforms. If the compiler cannot deal properly with the
> source code written in the utf-8 encoding, then the whole effort that went into
> all the wide_ and wide_wide_ packages and the new packages that deal with various encodings is lost (all the Latin-x possibilities are useless anyway, at least on Windows platform). I am adjoining a trivial program which works differently according to the encoding (UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1) of the source code, printing 1 or 2 as the answer.
>
> with ada.text_io; use ada.text_io;
> procedure example is
>     S : String := "ó";
> begin
>     Put_Line (S'Length'Img);
> end;

GNAT has two switches that affect its way of looking at
coded characters in source text:

for identifiers in source text, specify -gnatiC
  where C is one of the characters listed 3.2.10
  of the GNAT UG accompanying the compiler;

for the wide character encoding method, specify -gnatWE
  where E is one of the characters listed in the
  same document.

With switch -gnatW8, I get

$ ./example
  1
$

That is, the source text is understood to be encoded
in UTF-8, and 'ó' becomes Character'Val (243), viz. LC_O_Acute.