From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Ada 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:28:19 -0500
Date: 2010-08-23T17:28:19-05:00 [thread overview]
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"Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
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>> See AI05-137-2
>> (http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ai05s/ai05-0137-2.txt?rev=1.2)
>
>Time for my stupid question of the day :)
>
>I could not avoid two questions: why no UTF-32 ? (this would not be an
>implementation nightmare) and why BOM handled for each string while BOM is
>to be used at stream/file level ? (see XML or HTML files for example). Or
>are these strings supposed to hold the whole content of a file/stream ?
Did you read the AI? There is a reason that I put links to the AIs into
these messages and links to the AIs from the AARM online. Each AI includes a
!discussion section which typically includes some discussion of the design
decisions. In this case, both of these questions are answered in the AI.
Randy.
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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
2010-08-23 10:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-23 22:28 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
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