Re: [ranting] Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
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> So the options are:
>
> 1. Wide_Wide_String
> 2. Wide_String encoded as UTF-16
> 3. String encoded as UFT-8 or else as UTF-16
>
> The first needs conversions beyond just adding NUL. The last two are just
> not Ada strings. Among these three evils the third one in UTF-8 is IMO the
> least one.

My recollection was that the ARG decided that the most sensible way to
handle localized file names was with UTF-8 strings (that is, Dmitry's choice
3). In that case, there is no need for new functionality and thus only
"String" is supported for file names. I recall arguing that in that case we
should provide some Wide_String <=> UTF-8 string converters, but for
whatever reason few others thought that was important.

One could imagine a UTF_8_String type, but since it would work identically
to String in all cases, it didn't seem worth the vast changes. (I felt that
way about Really_Wide_String or Wide**2_String or whatever it's called ;-0
too, but no joy there.)

                                    Randy.