Re: Wide_[Wide_]Character

[Dale Stanbrough <MrNoSpam@bigpoop.net.au>]

In article <Dr%dk.113840$102.42319@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
 anon@anon.org (anon) wrote:

> Ada Wide_Character is defined as ISO-10646:2003 (32-bit) (RM 3.2.2 (3/2)). 
> The unicode version is 4.0.  
> Verified at http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/

I think you mean 3.5.2.

It only says that it follows ISO-10646, but says nothing about it being 
a 32 bit version (see http://unicode.org/faq/unicode_iso.html#3).

The wikipedia entry also mentions that UTF-16 was an early extension to 
UCS-2 (and by implication also supported by ISO-10646).


The character codes are the same as those supported by Unicode (in fact 
106464 seems to be the Unicode character code point values but without 
all of the sorting, script, locale etc support).

The encodings are independent of the code set.

Dale

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