Re: Convert wide_string to string (as the same byte array)

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote in message 
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> On Monday, March 5, 2012 5:58:48 PM UTC-8, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>
>> An alternative to Adam's solution would be to use the Ada2012 encoding
>> functions (A.4.11), specifically Ada.Strings.UTF_Encoding.Wide_Strings, 
>> and
>> use a UTF-8 encoding. That would be shorter, but not fixed length, so
>> whether that would work for you depends on the API you are feeding these
>> into.
>
> This may seem like a dumb question, but does that preserve order?

My understanding was that UTF-8 was designed so that ordinary byte 
comparison operations would work "properly" on UTF-8 strings (presuming no 
"overlong encodings" are used; there is no point in such things, it's like 
including NOPs in your generated instructions). That's surely true if only 
equality is involved; I believe it is also true for ordering, but as I've 
never tried it I don't want to say for absolutely certain.

                                            Randy.