Re: China, character sets

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Bj�rn Persson <spam-away@nowhere.nil> wrote:
:> : As far as demand goes, you're the first person to mention it to my
:> : knowledge -- which is suggests that the demand is low. :-)
:> 
:> How do that do these things in China? Does anyone have some
:> experience?
: 
: Do the Chinese even use Ada?

Rumor on c.l.ada has it that yes, GNAT is used there.
But even if not, it seems to be used (and supported?) in Japan.
How about South Korea? Taiwan?

: There seem to be mostly USers and Western 
: Europeans here (and a Russian or two).

Let's not again split Poland between East and West ;-)
If you want to write a Polish or Russian name next to a French
name, you are in trouble with 8bit character sets...
 
: if they find its support for Chinese too incomplete, then 
: that's one very rational reason.

At least if we apply western rationality ;-)