From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.99.120.13 with SMTP id t13mr3900020pgc.171.1502368826473; Thu, 10 Aug 2017 05:40:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.39.140 with SMTP id g134mr516102ita.7.1502368826436; Thu, 10 Aug 2017 05:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer03.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!u14no2297706ita.0!news-out.google.com!19ni3775itw.0!nntp.google.com!u14no2297080ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 05:40:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:c7d:3c35:b000:325a:3aff:fe0f:37a5; posting-account=L2-UcQkAAAAfd_BqbeNHs3XeM0jTXloS NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:c7d:3c35:b000:325a:3aff:fe0f:37a5 References: <79e06550-67d7-45b3-88f8-b7b3980ecb20@googlegroups.com> <9d4bc8aa-cc44-4c30-8385-af0d29d49b36@googlegroups.com> <1395655516.524005222.638450.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <84f6734d-c59a-4bb2-9723-5ee87697d994@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada Programming Language From: Lucretia Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:40:26 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Body-CRC: 845942628 X-Received-Bytes: 2298 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47673 Date: 2017-08-10T05:40:26-07:00 List-Id: On Thursday, 10 August 2017 13:18:48 UTC+1, J-P. Rosen wrote: > Le 09/08/2017 =C3=A0 23:08, Luke A. Guest a =C3=A9crit : > > 2) full Unicode support including sorting, character db, regexps, bound= ed > > and unbounded need, iterators for code points, graph=C3=A8me clusters, = word > > boundaries, bidi, etc. > You should have attended my tutorial in Vienna... Yes well, I can't afford that. =20 > The Unicode standard is about 2 and a half the size of the ARM. And > sorting is a much more complicated issue than you can imagine. and... I know, I've read enough of it. =20 > I don't think compiler vendors are ready to double their teams just to > provide Unicode support ;-) Double? Really? I don't think so, over exaggeration.