From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling)
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:40:37 +0200
Date: 2010-08-22T22:40:37+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i4s207$mdl$1@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c717f18$0$7652$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net>
Le 22/08/2010 21:48, Georg Bauhaus a écrit :
> On 8/22/10 8:51 PM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>
>> I think you missed the "Encoding" function. The intended usage
>> (extracted from the !discussion section) is:
>> 1) Read the first line. Call function Encoding on that line with an
>> appropriate default to use if the line does not start with a
>> BOM. Initialize the encoding scheme to the value returned by the
>> function.
>
> Since Ada is an ISO language, is the name BOM for the non-UTF-8
> thing used by Microsoft actually ISO? (I.e., has it become part of ISO
> 10646)?
>
It's from Unicode. ISO 10646 defines only character encodings
(code-points). Unicode uses the same encodings, and in addition defines
UTF-8 and siblings.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-20 21:38 Ada 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-20 21:41 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-21 6:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-21 7:01 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-08-21 8:12 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-22 18:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-08-22 19:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-22 20:40 ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2010-08-23 10:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-23 22:28 ` Randy Brukardt
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