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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: strange behaviour of utf-8 files
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 22:14:49 -0600
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"Shark8" <onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:672ce4f6-8c65-43b5-b04b-a7b858205af8@googlegroups.com...
> On Thursday, November 21, 2013 6:03:29 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>
>> P.S. Truth-in-advertising: Janus/Ada *only* takes Latin-1 input; it has 
>> no
>> support for any other encoding (of course it supports Wide_String at
>> runtime). That will have to change as we migrate to Ada 2012, but it
>> probably will be a while before that happens (not a lot of demand).
>
> Not a lot of demand for UTF-8, or not a lot of demand for Ada-2012 [from 
> the customers]?

Not a lot of demand for UTF-8 or wide characters in general. As far as Ada 
2012 goes, if I want to use a feature, it somehow gets in the compiler. :-) 
Customer demand not required (but it always helps).

                             Randy.