From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
Subject: Re: Bug in Ada - Latin 1 is not a subset of UTF-8
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 22:57:33 +0200
Date: 2016-10-17T22:57:33+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87funuae2q.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86f0d2fe-d498-4bc4-bb9d-e34629c89bb4@googlegroups.com
Lucretia wrote:
> Whilst binding SDL_TTF function, I was going to Overload the TTF_Size*
> functions, but I couldn't do that because UTF_8_String is a subtype of
> String; String is Latin 1 and Latin 1 is not a subset of UTF-8, ASCII
> is.
>
> UTF_String should be implemented as an array like String and then
> UTF_8_String should be a subtype of UTF_String or a renaming, if that
> is the intent.
I think the best you can do is to ignore the subtypes declared in
Ada.Strings.UTF_Encoding (as they are just plain wrong), and declare
your own type for storing UTF-8 encoded strings.
Greetings,
Jacob
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2016-10-17 20:18 Bug in Ada - Latin 1 is not a subset of UTF-8 Lucretia
2016-10-17 20:57 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2016-10-18 5:44 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-10-17 23:25 ` G.B.
2016-10-18 7:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-10-18 8:23 ` G.B.
2016-10-18 8:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-10-18 10:09 ` G.B.
2016-10-18 12:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-10-18 15:10 ` G.B.
2016-10-18 16:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-10-18 17:35 ` G.B.
2016-10-18 20:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-10-19 8:15 ` G.B.
2016-10-19 8:25 ` G.B.
2016-10-19 8:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-10-19 14:20 ` G.B.
2016-10-19 16:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-10-20 0:31 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-10-20 7:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-10-21 12:28 ` G.B.
2016-10-21 16:13 ` Lucretia
2016-10-21 16:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-10-22 5:51 ` G.B.
2016-10-22 7:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-10-24 11:35 ` Luke A. Guest
2016-10-24 13:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-10-24 14:54 ` Luke A. Guest
2016-10-22 1:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-10-28 21:08 ` Shark8
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