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From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: translate character 2 ascii
Date: 2000/05/12
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What's the difference between a character 'x' and an ascii 'x'?
If you are talking about position in the list of characters,
  n : integer := character'pos('x');   -- set n to 120
  c : character := character'val(121); -- set c to 'y'
It's in Appendix K, though I grant it doesn't exactly jump out at you.