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David Starner wrote:
> But the internal character set has nothing to do with the external. We
> could output UTF-8 and use UTF-16 or UTF-32 internally. In fact, if you
> set the character set of the source code to UTF-8 with GNAT, it will input
> and output UTF-8. (This is not a great design, IMO.)

To tell the truth, I'm not completely sure what
it is exactly that I want.  :-)  To read in UTF-8
and turn them into Wide_String internally?
To read it into String as-is?  Or .....

But I do know that I use UTF-8 to store my text files.