Re: Ada and Unicode

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On 2022-04-08 10:56, Simon Wright wrote:
>> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>> 
>>> If you had an Ada-like language that used a universal UTF-8 string
>>> internally, you then would have a lot of old and mostly useless
>>> operations supported for array types (since things like slices are
>>> mainly useful for string operations).
>>
>> Just off the top of my head, wouldn't it be better to use
>> UTF32-encoded Wide_Wide_Character internally?
>
> Yep, that is the exactly the problem, a confusion between interface
> and implementation.

Don't understand. My point was that *when you are implementing this* it
mught be easier to deal with 32-bit charactrs/code points/whatever the
proper jargon is than with UTF8.

> Encoding /= interface, e.g. an interface of a string viewed as an
> array of characters. That interface just same for ASCII, Latin-1,
> EBCDIC, RADIX50, UTF-8 etc strings. Why do you care what is inside?

With a user's hat on, I don't. Implementers might have a different point
of view.