On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 21:55:27 +0200, Stefan.Lucks@uni-weimar.de wrote:

>> In any case, Ada.Text_IO.Create is a good example.
[...]
>> No Universal_ type will solve this issue -- you just cannot get rid of
>> explicit conversions.
>
> You can. Actually, what people do right now is implicit unchecked
> conversions from UTF-8 to String. It is even worse than PL/1, it is plain
> wrong, C-esque of worst kind. Unfortunately Ada simply offers no means to
> design it right.

If you have mounted different filesystems using different encodings on 
your system, how on earth should Ada.Text_IO even "know" which encoding to 
apply? (And even if not, how would Ada.Text_IO "know" the proper 
encoding?)

Yes, this is C-esque of the worst kine. However, what would you expect 
when making system calls with operation systems written in C?

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