Re: Character Sets (plain text police report)

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

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Exactly! As far as the Ada Standard goes, you should only need a
Wide_Wide_Character and all that goes with that. (Including
Wide_Wide_Text_IO). Beyond that, if one wished to deal with more exotic
forms of text files (Such as UTF-8 or XML), it would be best to provide a
standard Ada library component (separate from the Ada language standard) to
deal with it. Since it can be built out of core Ada components and the file
formats themselves might undergo changes, plus probably spotty support from
different operating systems, its best to include this in a library that,
while being "Standard", isn't subject to the same rules and long revision
cycles of the Ada standard.

MDC
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Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> > Marin David Condic wrote:
> >> So possibly if there was some kind of variant of Text_IO that dealt
> >> with UTF-8 files, it might be useful.
> >
> > Yes, but that is something I should be able to write myself.
>
> Make a library so I don't have to ;-)
>
>
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