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Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada
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On Friday, September 1, 2017 at 3:24:42 AM UTC-4, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 01/09/2017 05:51, Justin Sq wrote:
> > There is a lot of high-level discussion here regarding the many 
> > issues with Ada strings and UTF8 - and I agree for the most part,
> > but I think the solution here would be to add some new versions or
> > amendments to Text_IO and Directories that take Wide_Strings and
> > Wide_Wide_Strings for paths. It would be intuitive, solve the
> > problem, and fit the style of the runtime
> 
> This will break a lot of code that uses string literals in arguments as 
> well as the code with operations like:
> 
>     function Extension (Name : in String) return String;
> 
> And it would not solve the problem with Unbounded_String.
> 
> P.S. There is no solution based on overloading with unrelated string and 
> characters types. The packages like Wide_Text_IO was an attempt to keep 
> types unrelated while overloading at package level. Surprise, that 
> didn't work either.
> 

Ah yes, I suppose you are right. This is a difficult situation...