Re: Avatox 1.0: Trouble with encoding in Windows

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> vgodunko@rostel.ru schrieb:
>
>> Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> >
>> > ASIS 99 currently returns identifiers in Wide_Strings. That is enough to
>> > handle all possible Ada 95 programs. I suspect that the problem is in the
>> > XML conversion tool not handling Wide_Characters properly and not with ASIS.
>> > (Or just as likely, the XML processing tools not handling UTF-8 properly.)
>> >
>> This is known ASIS for GNAT problem. AdaCore's GNAT/ASIS don't support
>> source code recoding. It correctly work only for ASCII and UTF-8
>> encodings (this require compiling with -gnatW8 switch).
>
> Well, that effectivly means we all need to compile with:
>
>          "-gnatiw",                          -- Wide-character codes
> allowed in identifiers
>          "-gnatW8",                          -- UTF-8 encoding
>
> in order to be fully ASIS compatible. Good to know that both VIM and
> new GPS 4.0 support Utf-8.

Manuel's bisiesto example makes GNAT 4.0.0, GPL 2005 and GPL 2006 hang
if compiled with -gnatW8. On this Powerbook, anyway.

If compiled without, asis2xml fails with the exception
UNICODE.CES.INVALID_ENCODING but since I haven't actually thought
about unicode this will probably be my fault!