From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6d9eb594a33cb947 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-30 10:50:08 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!205.231.236.10!newspeer.monmouth.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: very specific question on Ada syntax Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:35:38 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <9571hp$ghg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <94s4vm$qr4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <87bssu2h6w.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <94vp38$ldv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8766ixe89y.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Jan 30 18:35:38 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x62.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4720 Date: 2001-01-30T18:35:38+00:00 List-Id: In article <8766ixe89y.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer 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. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/