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On Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 2:50:56 AM UTC+2, hreba wrote:
> I concatenate some strings created with Integer'Image and print them to 
> the screen with Cairo.Show_Text. A subsequent call to Cairo.Status 
> returns CAIRO_STATUS_INVALID_STRING. Calling Cairo.Show_Text with String 
> literals works fine.
> 
> The comments of Show_Text subprogram say that the argument shall be a
> "NUL-terminated string of text encoded in UTF-8, or Null_Ptr". Appending 
> ASCII.NUL did not help. So what can I do to make the String UTF-8?
> 
> I am using the actual Ubuntu repository for Linux and GNAT GPL 2012 for 
> Windows, both with libgtkada2.24.
> -- 
> Frank Hrebabetzky		+55 / 48 / 3235 1106
> Florianopolis, Brazil


google is your friend!!

http://lists.adacore.com/pipermail/gtkada/2003-March/002102.html

cheers,
j.