From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,699cc914522aa7c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!130.59.10.21.MISMATCH!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Persson Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <51p83bF1k9di7U1@mid.individual.net> <51rhs3F1m1jliU1@mid.individual.net> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:09:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.96.174 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1169942993 83.250.96.174 (Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:09:53 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:09:53 CET Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8637 Date: 2007-01-28T00:09:53+00:00 List-Id: Markus E Leypold wrote: > Identifiers in Ada are actually Latin-1, arent't they? At least in > GNAT writing '�berschuss' instead of 'Ueberschuss' works. In Ada 95, yes. In Ada 2005, the full Unicode character set is allowed. The constant ? is defined. Unfortunately there's a big showstopper: There's no standard way to tell the compiler which character encoding each source file is encoded in. > And I > appreciate that. So, a compiler taking complete unicode source with > identifiers in the respective alphabets would be really useful. In theory Gnat is supposed to do that, as it has command line switches for UTF-8 support. In practice this feature won't be very useful, because it requires *all* code to be in the same encoding. Even worse, it assumes that the same encoding is used in every locale where the program will be executed. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu