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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-17 15:28:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-han1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-stoc.telia.net!news-stoa.telia.net!telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJuIFBlcnNzb24=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Character encodings References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <406EB6D2.8030801@noplace.com> <87d66pyw1g.fsf@insalien.org> <406EEC35.7040109@noplace.com> <874qs0zvy1.fsf@insalien.org> <40714C98.90601@noplace.com> <1073gv22t969q5a@corp.supernews.com> <40729B9D.30906@noplace.com> <1076000ef5oj06f@corp.supernews.com> <87d666wjq3.fsf@insalien.org> <5qggc.90041$dP1.271327@newsc.telia.net> <87zn9auywq.fsf@insalien.org> In-Reply-To: <87zn9auywq.fsf@insalien.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 22:28:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1082240934 217.209.116.179 (Sun, 18 Apr 2004 00:28:54 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 00:28:54 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7283 Date: 2004-04-17T22:28:54+00:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Bj=C3=B6rn Persson writes: >=20 >>If beginners could easily write hello-world programs in Hebrew or >>Chinese or whatever, it might improve Ada's popularity and make it >>seem like a language for the twenty-first century. >=20 >=20 > That is true. With GNAT, it is already possible to do this, using > UTF-8 or one of several other encodings for source files. But this > capability is an extension to the standard. I do not think teenagers > care that much whether this feature is standard or not, so long as it > is there. Okay, they can do it, but not easily if they have to write command line=20 options. Beginners shouldn't have to care about character encodings.=20 Maybe if GPS were made smart enough to handle it all automatically (and=20 had its current UTF-8 bugs fixed). --=20 Bj=C3=B6rn Persson jor ers @sv ge. b n_p son eri nu