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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: GNAT vs UTF-8 source file names
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 00:45:55 +0300
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On 17-06-27 16:22 , Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
 > Simon Wright wrote:
 >
 >> What do people who actually need to use international character sets
 >> do about this? Do you just avoid using international characters in
 >> Ada unit names? Or have I just missed the relevant part of the
 >> manual?

I use ISO-Latin-1 identifiers in some Ada programs written in a Finnish 
context, using the Finnish alphabet letters ä, ö, and sometimes the 
Swedish å. Worked OK for me until *some* of the file systems I use 
changed from file names with 8-bit characters to UTF-8 file names, after 
which CVS was quite messed up. I have since limited myself to ASCII in 
all identifiers that become file name parts in GNAT's file-naming 
convention, but I still use ISO Latin 1 for other identifiers.

 > One of my customers simply has a policy saying that all identifiers
 > have to be in English (the policy doesn't say if it should be American
 > English or proper English), and thus neatly works around the problem.

Only if you stick to "modern" English spelling. Otherwise you could 
have, for example,

    package Coördinates is ...

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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