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On Oct 15, 5:06=A0am, ytomino <aghi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Of course, I think that the standard is impractical, too.
> If we must keep the standard, there is no way to access a file (and
> other environment features) named with non-ASCII, at all.
> I'm unlikely to bear... But that's another problem.
>
It is always possible to use non-standard library. For example you can
look at Matreshka http://forge.ada-ru.org/matreshka; it has own string
type which is equivalent to Wide_Wide_String, but more space and
performance efficient. It provides access to command line switches and
environment variables in platform and encoding independent way using
this string. Unfortunately, directory operations is not implemented
now, but we will implement them in some point.