Re: strange behaviour of utf-8 files

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:05:45 +0100, G.B. wrote:

> Character literals are not bugs. Ada lacks means of
> expressing programmer's intent here, that much is true.
> Encoding could be specified by an aspect, just like 'Size.
> The language is buggy here, when matched against ubiquitous
> real world programming situations.

You are fundamentally wrong here. Encoding is not an aspect, encoding is a
type.

Compare:

123 is a literal of Integer, mod 341, Unsigned_16, ... types

"A" is a literal of String (Latin1), Wide_String (UCS-2), Wide_Wide_String
(UCS-4)

Ada can and surely must have UTF-8 and whatever other encoded strings,
characters and slices. The reason why this is not done, because of other
language problems irrelevant here. [It would cause combinatorial explosion
of standard libraries.]

Note, with all and any thinkable additions, the problem OP had will still
be present, because it has nothing to do with the language itself.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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