From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,2afae4a128914036 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.telebyte.nl!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: China, character sets Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 16:49:02 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <47SdnXI-D-3icyLdRVn-uQ@megapath.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1086454142 21927 134.91.1.34 (5 Jun 2004 16:49:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 16:49:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1126 Date: 2004-06-05T16:49:02+00:00 List-Id: Bj�rn Persson 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 ;-)