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: 103376,5bcc293dc5642650 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.11.199 with SMTP id s7mr24292076pbb.5.1318835574731; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:12:54 -0700 (PDT) Path: d5ni20421pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why no Ada.Wide_Directories? Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:12:35 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <9937871.172.1318575525468.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prib32> <418b8140-fafb-442f-b91c-e22cc47f8adb@y22g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <1gzuyf8eg0o0k.7yo8q1lqfiyr.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dFCm8HWntFqmDIilBLqEJQ"; logging-data="26523"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/qkEz4o72wlpw+DUsTM+7iM610nYamzco=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:afbJaghXoZja0PVdLzdTrB1DXhU= sha1:3uME+avNRsrs6iQpEefhBBSB7LA= Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18507 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 2011-10-17T08:12:35+01:00 List-Id: "Peter C. Chapin" writes: > I can appreciate that accessing files with Unicode names might be a > useful thing to do in a standard program. What happens when such a > program tries to create files with such names on a system that doesn't > support them? I suppose a solution could be found, but I can also see > how it would get ugly. Exception Name_Error, I'd think!