Re: GNAT vs UTF-8 source file names

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> "Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message 
> news:lybmow1pfk.fsf@pushface.org...
> ...
>> The rest is about GNAT's behaviour; to reiterate, ARM 2.1(16/3) says
>>
>>   "An Ada implementation shall accept Ada source code in UTF-8
>>   encoding, with or without a BOM (see A.4.11), where every character
>>   is represented by its code point."
>>
>> which for GNAT is not met unless either there is a BOM or -gnatW8 is
>> used.
>
> The Standard says "shall accept"; it has nothing to say about what 
> handstands are needed to get the required behavior

I suppose I'm more used to military requirements, where (IMO) handstands
would be unacceptable, and "shall accept" means just that. Perhaps
"shall be able to accept"? But (having read your other note) I see why
this isn't going to change.