Re: Reading "normal" text files with Wide_Text_IO in GNAT

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Adam Beneschan wrote:

> However, at first glance, I didn't see a way to get Wide_Text_IO to
> read a UCS-1 text file.

Hmm, I've never heard of UCS-1. Is such an encoding really defined?

> This is the encoding where each byte in the 
> range  16#00#..16#FF# represents a character in the range
> Wide_Character'Val(16#0000#) .. Wide_Character'Val(16#00FF#), and there
> is no way to represent wide characters from 16#0100# to 16#FFFF#.

OK, so it's identical to ISO 8859-1.

> Does GNAT's Wide_Text_IO have a way to read a file like this?

It does indeed look like it can't. Gnat's approach to character encodings is
amazingly faulty.

Does EAstrings fill your needs? If not, would you like to join me in
finishing the implementation so we can get rid of these problems?

http://adacl.sourceforge.net/AdaBrowse/adacl-eastrings.html

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