Re: GNAT vs UTF-8 source file names

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>]

Simon Wright wrote:

> The rest is about GNAT's behaviour; to reiterate, ARM 2.1(16/3) says
>
>    "An Ada implementation shall accept Ada source code in UTF-8
>    encoding, with or without a BOM (see A.4.11), where every character
>    is represented by its code point."
>
> which for GNAT is not met unless either there is a BOM or -gnatW8 is
> used.

Which sounds perfectly okay.

There are no limitations to which command-line arguments a program can
require to behave like an Ada compiler.

> On the other hand, ARM 2.1(4/3) says "The coded representation for
> characters is implementation defined", which seems to conflict with
> (16) - but then, the AARM ramification (4.b/2) notes that the rule
> doesn't have much force!

That sounds like the classical wording.

I suppose that the intent is that UTF-8 encoded ISO-10646 (in the right
normalization form) _has_ to be supported, but that any other encoding
is allowed in addition to that.

It would of course be nice if that was also what the ARM actually said.

Greetings,

Jacob
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