"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.