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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: unicode and wide_text_io
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:15:48 +0000
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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:

> On 17-12-28 16:32 , Simon Wright wrote:
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

>>> Take this program:
>>> ------------------------------------
>>> with Ada.Text_IO;  use Ada.Text_IO;
>>> procedure Superscript is
>>> begin
>>>    Put_Line
>>>    (  "Superscript 1="
>>>    &  Character'Val (194)
>>>    &  Character'Val (185)
>>>    );
>>> end Superscript;
>>> ------------------------------------
>>
>> works fine on macOS (no chcp messing needed!)
>
> Depends on the Preferences (-> Settings -> Advanced: Character
> encoding) you set for the Mac Terminal program. While UTF-8 is one of
> the available encodings, I normally have it set to Latin-1, to match
> Ada and GNAT. Latin-1 is fine for the languages I mostly use (English,
> Swedish, Finnish).

I dare say you can do something similar under Linux?

The setting is in Preferences -> Profiles -> Advanced on High Sierra,
and Unicode (UTF-8) is what I have set; I don't recall changing it, so I
guss it's the default.