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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)
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Subject: Re: Hebrew language character set
Date: 5 Apr 2001 03:03:39 GMT
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On Wed, 04 Apr 2001 13:36:47 -0800, Paul Storm <paul.a.storm@lmco.com> wrote:
>For those that are interested, I produce code that (I think) produces
>a Hebrew character.  Here is the code:
>
>with Ada.Characters.Handling; use Ada.Characters.Handling;
>with Ada.Wide_Text_IO; use Ada.Wide_Text_IO;
>
>procedure aleph is
>begin
>  Ada.Wide_Text_IO.Put (Item => Wide_Character'Val(1488));
>end aleph;
>
>end of code
>
>Here is the output.
>
>["05D0"]
>
>end of output
>
>1448 decimal is 05D0 hexidecimal.
>
>I said think produces.  I am thinking that my display showed the
>character as a code due to the lack of support for that character
>(set) on my system.  Can anyone confirm this for me?  Does that make
>sense?

Nope. It looks like your Ada system uses a ["abcd"] encoding by
default, since it has no way to know what the correct encoding
should be. If you're using GNAT, the GNAT RM has a section about
wide text IO and changing it to output in different encodings.
If you have a recent version (>4.0) of XFree86, you can run 
xterm -u8 which will properly understand UTF-8; otherwise, there's
probably no way to get readable Hebrew output.

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