Re: strange behaviour of utf-8 files

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

"Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu> wrote in message 
news:alpine.DEB.2.02.1311161503000.6074@whirlwind...
> On Sat, 16 Nov 2013, Stoik wrote:
>
>> By the way, nothing changes if I use wide_character and wide_string 
>> instead of character and string. Even if character=octet, certainly 
>> wide_character is not an octet!
>
> It sounds like you want something like
>
>     function UTF8_String_To_Wide_String(S : String) return Wide_String;
>
> UTF-8 is a variable length encoding and thus not the same beast as 
> Wide_String. String literals are going to be encoded in the same manner as 
> the rest of the source text, of course.

Ada 2012 has Ada.Strings.UTF_Encodings for run-time encoding conversions. 
(See A.4.11.) We might be able to do better in the next version of Ada 
(whenever that is), but I wouldn't hold my breath.

                                Randy.