From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: Filenames in Ada
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:09:12 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2005-11-23T18:09:12+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dm2b88$7j5$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1653090.31FM62oI6I@linux1.krischik.com>
Martin Krischik wrote:
> Hello
>
> I was just starting to write a little demo program for Ada.Directories. Aim
> was the generation of m3u files for music collection. Allways nice to have
> a demo which actually does something.
>
> However, filenames in music collections contain all sort of funny characters
> (especially the my wife's music - allmost entirely in Cyrillic) - no big
> deal for modern file systems. But a big deal for Ada as it seams. Not only
> are all filenames in Ada.Directories of type String - actually all
> filenames anywhere are just String.
>
> How does one deal with modern (utf-8) filenames in Ada?
>
> Is there a chance for an add-on package (to late for Ada 2005) or are we
> snookered until Ada 2015.
>
> I also looked at C - they have appropriate functions in <wchar.h> using
> Wide_Wide_Character for filenames.
Aren't there some conversion routines to turn 16/32-bit UTF to/from
String in AWS or XML/Ada?
Cheers
-- Martin
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-23 17:36 Filenames in Ada Martin Krischik
2005-11-23 18:09 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2005-11-24 19:16 ` Martin Krischik
2005-11-23 18:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-24 19:13 ` Martin Krischik
2005-11-24 20:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-24 21:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-11-25 7:12 ` krischik
2005-11-25 12:25 ` [OT] VMS ODS-5 filesystems, was: " Simon Clubley
2005-11-25 18:01 ` Martin Krischik
2005-11-25 18:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-25 19:54 ` Martin Krischik
[not found] ` <gjqeo157udsnbfuq8ak4dosf6nep5fomss@4ax.com>
2005-11-27 9:31 ` [OT] VMS DCL prompt, was: " Martin Krischik
2005-11-30 0:16 ` [OT] Administrator accounts (was: VMS DCL prompt) Björn Persson
2005-11-30 4:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-11-23 22:18 ` Filenames in Ada Randy Brukardt
2005-11-24 3:21 ` Silly question about strings (was: Filenames in Ada) Steve
2005-11-24 4:58 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-11-24 9:15 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-24 11:30 ` Silly question about strings Brian May
2005-11-24 13:06 ` Silly question about strings (was: Filenames in Ada) Larry Kilgallen
2005-11-29 3:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-11-29 5:53 ` tmoran
2005-11-29 21:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-11-30 0:15 ` Björn Persson
2005-11-24 19:05 ` Filenames in Ada Martin Krischik
2005-11-25 6:54 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-26 1:22 ` Björn Persson
2005-11-27 10:21 ` Martin Krischik
2005-11-30 0:13 ` Björn Persson
2005-12-01 6:59 ` Martin Krischik
2005-12-03 1:07 ` Björn Persson
2005-12-14 6:59 ` Dave Thompson
2005-12-15 20:23 ` Martin Krischik
2005-12-17 0:22 ` program privileges (was: Filenames in Ada) Georg Bauhaus
2005-12-17 16:59 ` Filenames in Ada Simon Wright
2005-12-17 23:18 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-12-18 13:30 ` privileges in Unix and VMS (was: Filenames in Ada) Björn Persson
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