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From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: Ada 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling)
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:40:37 +0200
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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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