Re: A few questions on parsing, sockets, UTF-8 strings

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com]

> In that case, as long as I don't need to access single characters ever, could I stick with fixed strings?

Exactly. String is just an array of (8-bit) Character, so you can have UTF-8 strings stored there (or ASCII, or other things...), but a single "Unicode character" will take one *or more* Character's in a String.
As a reminder, you can define "subtype UTF_8_String is String;", just to be aware that taking a single Character's in your String can be meaningless.
But wait, the package Ada.Strings.UTF_Encoding does it for you, plus provides conversions functions.
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