Re: Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux?

[Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Randy Brukardt a �crit :
> But I do agree that this issue needs some discussion.
> 
> (Also note that a major reason for this package is to make ASIS work; there 
> [as with I/O], we're stuck with existing routines that return Wide_Strings 
> that are not enough to handle all possible text.)
> 
Sure, in the abstract, code points are not characters. Note that they
are not in the proposed AI either: the wording is careful to talk of
"characters whose position value is the code point". But another reason
to use strings is to not make things too complicated for the casual
user. By making a UTF8 type different from String, we would please Ada
purist, and once again send the message to the rest of the world that
Ada manages to turn things that are so simple in other languages into
horrible complications. We don't need that.
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