From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: ISO LATIN_1 in Windows 95 ?
Date: 1998/10/06
Date: 1998-10-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6vdoin$e3i$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6vde32$jle$1@news.net.uni-c.dk
In article <6vde32$jle$1@news.net.uni-c.dk>,
sparre@meyer.fys.ku.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen) wrote:
> Hans Marqvardsen (hm@ddre.dk) wrote:
> You can't have a working Ada compiler on/targeting a system that can't
> interpret all of Latin-1 (strictly speaking). The usual solution seems
> to be to assume that the character encoding _is_ Latin-1 in such cases.
Well that's not quite right, or at least it is misleading. There is nothing
in the Ada standard that prescribes the actual appearence of input or output
characters, so in fact the encoding does not have to be "right" to have a
conforming compiler. There must be an external representation for every
Latin-1 character, but what this external representation might look like
is not part of the standard.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-05 0:00 ISO LATIN_1 in Windows 95 ? Hans Marqvardsen
1998-10-06 0:00 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
1998-10-06 0:00 ` dewarr [this message]
1998-10-07 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
1998-10-08 0:00 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1998-10-10 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-10-06 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-07 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
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