"Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote in message 
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>Le Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:12:39 +0200, Peter C. Chapin <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu> 
>a �crit:
>> It seems like you are expecting too much from the standard.
>I feel to expect safe execution. The actual behavior is unsafe.

That's clearly an implementation problem rather than a language one. 
Ada.Directories was designed with the intent that UTF-8 encoding could be 
used throughout (as an option) and it would work. To the extent that that is 
not true, there would be a bug, but I know of no such problems.

Now, if an implementation on Windows doesn't have a way to use UTF-8 
encoding, that is an implementation problem, but not one that the Standard 
can do much about.

                                            Randy.