From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,47bc849aad30d586 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-31 16:21:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!msc1.onvoy!ply1.onvoy!upp1.onvoy!onvoy.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!newsxfer.visi.net!154.32.99.10.MISMATCH!psiuk-p2!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 09:15:18 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <39ee2480.0205282322.3bbd4673@posting.google.com> <839J8.1076$r5.175696924@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1022850919 29406 136.170.200.133 (31 May 2002 13:15:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 May 2002 13:15:19 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25129 Date: 2002-05-31T13:15:19+00:00 List-Id: You'll have to forgive us old timers. When we say "ASCII" what we mean is "Text". So Unicode in some manner would be (at least in my mind) fundamentally the same thing. Not that I am more in favor of it if the format is Unicode instead of ASCII - I still think it ought to be just a Stream file of a data structure held in memory. But if the consensus is to put it in some text format, you can go ahead and make it 32-bit Unicode so you can support hieroglyphics and ancient sandscrit and I'll still be calling it ASCII :-) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "Georg Bauhaus" wrote in message news:ad7edf$phc$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de... > > Not only that. It seems quite plausible, with Ada being capable of > handling a substantial subset of Unicode, and for more than one > other reason, to store something more than > (US) American Standard Code for Information Interchange > wich isn't even enough for directly storing all US american words, > let alone anything that might be needed in Canada, Brazil, > Russia, France, Korea, Egypt, Japan, ... > (E.g. error messages.) >