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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Filenames in Ada
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:09:12 +0000 (UTC)
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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