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 10.107.138.170 with SMTP id c42mr10413886ioj.2.1502472272686; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:24:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.250.70 with SMTP id v67mr704896ith.2.1502472272435; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:24:32 -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!peer02.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer02.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!lightspeed.eweka!u14no125ita.0!news-out.google.com!n39ni182qtf.1!nntp.google.com!u14no638ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:24:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1919594098.524164165.354468.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2601:c3:101:cda0:75d9:c2ba:970d:37f5; posting-account=0e_2YQoAAACiyvAQE9nydlmk8joBaY1J NNTP-Posting-Host: 2601:c3:101:cda0:75d9:c2ba:970d:37f5 References: <79e06550-67d7-45b3-88f8-b7b3980ecb20@googlegroups.com> <9d4bc8aa-cc44-4c30-8385-af0d29d49b36@googlegroups.com> <1395655516.524005222.638450.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <4527d955-a6fe-4782-beea-e59c3bb69f21@googlegroups.com> <22c5d2f4-6b96-4474-936c-024fdbed6ac7@googlegroups.com> <1919594098.524164165.354468.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <85d4930c-d4dc-4e4f-af7a-fd7c213b8290@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada Programming Language From: Justin Sq Injection-Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:24:32 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Body-CRC: 4011033770 X-Received-Bytes: 2794 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47710 Date: 2017-08-11T10:24:32-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, August 11, 2017 at 1:10:34 PM UTC-4, Luke A. Guest wrote: > <...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Friday, August 11, 2017 at 10:42:12 AM UTC-4, Justin Sq wrote: >=20 > >> On the otherhand Ada.Directories and Ada.Text_IO are woefully outdated= . > >> For example, if you have a computer and you speak a language like > >> Japanese, French, German, Spanish, etc. think of how frustrating it is > >> when you simply can't open a file with anything other than ASCII in th= e > >> path. A program that deals with relative directories might work fine i= n > >> one directory but get moved and suddenly fail hopelessly. Poor end-use= r :( > >=20 > > My mistake String supports more than just ASCII (Duh), but Asian and > > other esoteric languages obvious not. > >=20 >=20 > Unicode would solve this. Ah 21st century technology! =F0=9F=98=8B Or just Wide Strings ; )... I really don't see the point of UTF encoding even. Memory is so cheep and w= e normally end up sending gobs of CSS and minified JS on webpages anyway.