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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
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Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:36:59 +0200
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Robert Eachus wrote:

> There is an 'elegant' solution.  Add a UTF8 character string type.

Wouldn't it be more elegant to redefine Character to cover all Unicode
code-points?  (And make Wide_Character and Wide_Wide_Character renamings
(i.e. subtypes) of Character.)  The Latin-N character sets will of
course have to be declared as subtypes of Character, and I/O
serialization will have to be told of character encodings.

I can imagine that there may be some incompabilities from making such a
change, but what are they?

Greetings,

Jacob
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