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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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>> What are the major differences between C and Ada in how you must approach
>> Unicode text processing?
>
> No differences:
>
> 1. Read the input
> 2. Recode it into the format most useful for the application
> 3. Do whatever processing in that format
> 4. When output is needed, recode back
>
> The best choice, at least for compiler writing and GUI text editors is IMO
> UTF-8.

And Ada 2012 has added libraries which directly support the "recoding" 
Dmitry mentions above.

(And I agree with UTF-8. Ada 2012 finally specifies that all Ada 2012 
compilers have to support source code in UTF-8 format, so we now have a 
standard format for Ada source code. Finally.)

                                           Randy.