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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
Date: 17 Apr 2004 22:34:13 +0200
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Björn Persson writes:
> If beginners could easily write hello-world programs in Hebrew or
> Chinese or whatever, it might improve Ada's popularity and make it
> seem like a language for the twenty-first century.

That is true.  With GNAT, it is already possible to do this, using
UTF-8 or one of several other encodings for source files.  But this
capability is an extension to the standard.  I do not think teenagers
care that much whether this feature is standard or not, so long as it
is there.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.