* Re: String type conversions
1999-02-09 0:00 String type conversions David Botton
1999-02-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-09 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
@ 1999-02-09 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
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From: Stephen Leake @ 1999-02-09 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
David Botton <David@Botton.com> writes:
> What is the best way to convert back forth between:
>
> Wide_String to/from String
I'd define a map (Ada.Strings.Wide_Maps) to map non-ASCII characters
to ASCII.Nul or whatever might be appropriate, then write a loop to do
the actual copy from the map output character by character. Let the
compiler optimize the loop.
Or you can use Ada.Strings.Handling.To_Character in the loop, if you
don't need a full map.
> wchar_array to/from char_array
Convert to the Ada type, then proceed as above.
-- Stephe
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* Re: String type conversions
1999-02-09 0:00 String type conversions David Botton
1999-02-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
@ 1999-02-09 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-09 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
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From: Robert I. Eachus @ 1999-02-09 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <36C08E00.C3904670@Botton.com> David Botton <David@Botton.com> writes:
> What is the best way to convert back forth between:
> Wide_String to/from String
Is this a trick question? To convert from String to Wide_String is
easy, call Ada.Characters.Handling.To_Wide_String. ;-) To go in the
other direction, there is a To_String function. But what you may
really need is something with a better mapping for Wide_Characters not
in Character. Note that you may want to make sure your Character type
is Latin-1 and not some other character set if you are using upper page
characters.
> wchar_array to/from char_array
Do I send you to the C newsgroup? Or just tell you that there is
no Ada defined mapping from one to the other, and the actual mapping
will be OS and compiler specific.
It is a shame that the character mapping arena is such a mess.
That is not an Ada issue, quite the opposite, in Ada it is a lot less
messy than in some other languages. It is just that there are so many
standard, pseudo-standard, and non-standard character sets out there.
--
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* Re: String type conversions
1999-02-09 0:00 String type conversions David Botton
@ 1999-02-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-09 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-09 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
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From: Tucker Taft @ 1999-02-09 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
David Botton wrote:
>
> What is the best way to convert back forth between:
>
> Wide_String to/from String
Ada.Characters.Handing.To_[Wide_]String
> wchar_array to/from char_array
As above, combined with To_Ada ... To_C.
> David Botton
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* String type conversions
@ 1999-02-09 0:00 David Botton
1999-02-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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From: David Botton @ 1999-02-09 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
What is the best way to convert back forth between:
Wide_String to/from String
wchar_array to/from char_array
David Botton
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* Re: String type conversions
1999-02-09 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
@ 1999-02-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
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From: Nick Roberts @ 1999-02-12 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Before too long, hopefully, the answer will be "just don't use [8-bit]
Character". Most workstations and PCs these days are so powerful - in order
to cope with graphics, multimedia, games etc. - that having them handle
16-bit characters (instead of 8-bit/MBCS) most of the time is unlikely to be
a problem. And as for long-term file storage: compress.
Question: I am currently developing an idea as to a standard graphics/GUI
package hierarchy for Ada; would there be any point at all in providing a
(nearly duplicate) set of procedures and functions for the 'Character' type,
as well as for 'Wide_Character'?
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