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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,347f7cbe27451012 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!hwmnpeer01.lga!news.highwinds-media.com!hw-filter.lga!newsfe09.lga.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "John W. Kennedy" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [ranting] Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories References: <3343563.psPA6e9Oqh@linux1.krischik.com> <1pkwbr5s12cf9$.9k2umlcxqzbr.dlg@40tude.net> <473A1241.90702@obry.net> <1vrktz0rlauvu.1nm0xh8n2wl90.dlg@40tude.net> <473ab86d$1@news.post.ch> <19x2od13tuh2a$.1lpcr349f44yp$.dlg@40tude.net> <1220629.5SNnNGaTIf@linux1.krischik.com> In-Reply-To: <1220629.5SNnNGaTIf@linux1.krischik.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.193.246.216 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cv.net X-Trace: newsfe09.lga 1195091465 68.193.246.216 (Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:51:05 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:51:05 MST Organization: Optimum Online Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:51:04 -0500 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18400 Date: 2007-11-14T20:51:04-05:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik wrote: > Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > >>> Not just Ada.Directories - any package where a file name is needed. >>> And not just Win32 - any platform which supports UTF-8 file names. >> Sure. >> >> One formal problem is that Character is specified as Latin-1. > > Sure - but then there is allways the BOM [1] 16#EFBBBF# would mark the > string UTF-8. That's a Microsoftism. The only standard BOMs are the UTF-16 ones. -- John W. Kennedy "...when you're trying to build a house of cards, the last thing you should do is blow hard and wave your hands like a madman." -- Rupert Goodwins