Re: Wide_String, Chinese & Japanese text files

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <7pmitf$r71$1@front3.grolier.fr>,
  "Thierry Lelegard" <lelegard@club-internet.fr> wrote:

> Does anyone have some pointers to these standards and to some
> simple free text utilities which can create a few sample
> text files with a US or European keyboard on UNIX (for
> test purpose, not production of course).

One thing to realize here is that, unlike the typical situation
with 8-bit codes, there are two separate things to worry about:

1. The encoding of each character into its 16-bit value

2. The manner in which 16-bit values are encoded, typically
into a stream of 8-bit bytes.

Ada has a lot to say about 1, but nothing at all to say about
2. In particular you cannot look at an encoding standard that
gives the 16-bit codes and then ask for a sample text file,
because a sample text file is about 2. rather than 1.



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