Re: Ada and Unicode

[DrPi <314@drpi.fr>]

Le 09/04/2022 à 18:46, Dennis Lee Bieber a écrit :
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 12:27:04 +0200, DrPi <314@drpi.fr> declaimed the
> following:
> 
>>
>> In Python-3, a string is a character(glyph ?) array. The internal
>> representation is hidden to the programmer.
> 
> 	<SNIP>
>>
>> On the Ada side, I've still not understood how to correctly deal with
>> all this stuff.
> 
> 	One thing to take into account is that Python strings are immutable.
> Changing the contents of a string requires constructing a new string from
> parts that incorporate the change.
> 

Right. I forgot to mention it.

> 	That allows for the second aspect -- even if not visible to a
> programmer, Python (3) strings are not a fixed representation: If all
> characters in the string fit in the 8-bit UTF range, that string is stored
> using one byte per character. If any character uses a 16-bit UTF
> representation, the entire string is stored as 16-bit characters (and
> similar for 32-bit UTF points). Thus, indexing into the string is still
> fast -- just needing to scale the index by the character width of the
> entire string.
> 

Thanks for clarifying.