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-Thread: 103376,421baaa91aa096a7,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.hub.org!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-spool.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Wide_[Wide_]Character User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:44:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.161.16.225 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1215848678 58.161.16.225 (Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:44:38 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:44:38 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1120 Date: 2008-07-12T07:44:38+00:00 List-Id: Unicode can be represented using UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 (amongst others). I gather that Character is simply ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1). I suspect that Wide_Character is UCS-2 (simple 2 byte values, no escapes like UTF-16). Is Wide_Wide_Character * UTF-16 * UTF-32 (i.e. UCS-4) * System dependent * Something else Thanks, Dale -- dstanbro@spam.o.matic.bigpond.net.au