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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: Question for the folks who designed Ada95
Date: 1999/04/28
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In article <3725EE85.54163275@aasaa.ofe.org>,
  David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org> wrote:
> Interesting. Then why was support for package ASCII
> required, and how
> was it supposed to be supported in a non-ASCII
> enviroment?

Package ASCII has nothing whatsoever to do with the
issues of representing source. There is no formal
connection whatsoever between source representation and
the type Standard.Character.

The graphics associated with characters in I/O situations
are device and implementation dependent, and are not
specified by the language.

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