Re: very specific question on Ada syntax

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <8766ixe89y.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>,
  Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:

> Ah, you were talking about the unusual ACVC/GNAT
> representation of wide characters using non-wide characters!

Nothing unusual about that. GNAT supports six different
representations of wide characters, including the widely
used JIS representation usually used in Japan for such
texts, and the ISO standard UTF representation.

>  Emacs has its own internal
> (and different) representation of multibyte characters, and
> an Emacs multibyte character is displayed as a single
> character.

Well yes of course your editor is expected to understand
the encoding sequence you use. But the compiler does not
look at an EMACS screen, it looks at the underlying
representation, and this will typically be a multi-character
representation.

Yes, you can imagine a world in which 16 bit characters are
used uniformly, but that world is not today's world (I am
talking about common usage in Japan, Korea and China -- all
of which tend to use different representation methods, all
common ones of which are supported by GNAT.


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