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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:06:28 -0500
From: "Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>
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On Sat, 16 Nov 2013, Stoik wrote:

> By the way, nothing changes if I use wide_character and wide_string 
> instead of character and string. Even if character=octet, certainly 
> wide_character is not an octet!

It sounds like you want something like

     function UTF8_String_To_Wide_String(S : String) return Wide_String;

UTF-8 is a variable length encoding and thus not the same beast as 
Wide_String. String literals are going to be encoded in the same manner as 
the rest of the source text, of course.

Peter