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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: very specific question on Ada syntax
Date: 30 Jan 2001 23:16:40 +0100
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> Yes, you can imagine a world in which 16 bit characters are
> used uniformly, but that world is not today's world (I am
> talking about common usage in Japan, Korea and China -- all
> of which tend to use different representation methods, all
> common ones of which are supported by GNAT.

BTW, Unicode is now a 21.something bit character set, and the
Wide_Character type is no longer appropriate for representing Unicode
(UCS-4) characters.  Will Ada be adapted accordingly?