Re: Text_IO on WinNT problem

[David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:48:04 -0700, Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com> wrote:
> David Starner wrote:
> 
>> Looking at the GNAT Reference manual, under Wide_Text_IO, there's no way
>> to load it in as Wide_Character. There's no standard way to handle it
>> with Text_IO - this seems like a fairly unusual case - but you could
>> always try reading them in one by one and discarding half of them.
> 
> See Ada.Characters.Handling,  ALRM, Annex A.3.2
> 
>       function To_Character(Item : in Wide_Character;
>                                            Substitute : in Character := ' ')
> return Character;

As I pointed out, GNAT can't read in UTF-16LE using Wide_Text_IO. The 
problem is getting them into the program, not converting them to the 
right form.

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