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Subject: Re: Is there a lex utility for Ada that handles unicode?
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<brian.b.mcguinness@lmco.com> wrote in message 
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> Is there some equivalent of the lex utility that produces
> Ada code rather than C code, and is capable of handling
> any character in the Unicode basic code plane?  I am
> thinking of using it on strings read from a GUI created
> with GtkAda, so it would probably be best if it accepted
> UTF-8 strings, but I could convert the input to a wide
> string if necessary.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --- Brian
>
I don't know if it helps, but if I were looking (based on what I have seen 
in the past) I would look at:
  Aflex
  Ayacc
  OpenToken

Source code is available.  It probably wouldn't be that much work to make a 
unicode version.

Steve
(The Duck)