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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Hebrew language character set
Date: 05 Apr 2001 18:41:53 +0200
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Paul Storm <paul.a.storm@lmco.com> writes:

> Jean-Marc,
> 
> Of course I RTFM first.  I said I was a newbie to Ada, not a jerk. (lol)
> Below is the entire section on Wide Text Input-Output(A.11) from the RM.
> It is not very useful, IMHO.  Frankly, I thought there would be more
> after hearing of Ada's robust language definition.  Now I'm not so sure.

$ gnatmake -gnatW8 aleph.adb 
$ ./aleph 
�
$ 

You were reading the wrong documentation.  Bothe GNAT User Guide and
the GNAT Reference Manual contain valuable information (not just on
this issue, but in general).