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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada and Internationalization
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On 30 May 2006 16:12:35 -0700, Michael Rohan wrote:

> I've checked Google and have not been able to find anything in Ada out
> there for internationalized code.  There's support for Wide_Character
> and Wide_Wide_Character but there doesn't seem to be libraries for
> message strings.  Before starting down the path of writing from
> scratch, wanted to check.
> 
> If nothing is available, I was considering taking Java .properties
> files, somehow "compiling" them into an Ada package and implementing
> something akin to Java's MessageFormat:
> 
>    Arguments : Message_Arguments;
>    ...
>    Arguments.Append ("a string");
>    Arguments.Append (10);
>    Arguments.Append (Pi);
>    Put_Line (Message_Format ("facility", "msg001", Arguments));

I don't see how this is related to internationalization. It looks like 
stream communication (see S"Output attribute) or string formatting. In 
either case you convert data to/from stream/string.

For strings I have a small library which works this way, it has UTF-8 
support.

http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/strings_edit.htm

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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