From: "Marius Amado Alves" <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
Subject: Re: Supporting full Unicode
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:23:51 +0100
Date: 2004-05-12T09:23:51+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.115.1084354437.313.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2004512-94456-948110@foorum.com
> But I would favour using UTF-8 as the internal encoding anyway. It is
> easy to define a UTF8_String type similar to the above. GtkAda has
> such a type, as GTK+ uses UTF-8 as both internal and external
> encoding.
Indeed UTF-8 seems to rule. Probably because there are more ready-to-use low
level tools for 8-bit characters. Actually the proper tools for Unicode
should be 24-bit based. An ugly fact about Unicode is that the code space is
24-bit and the encodings are all but 24 (8, 16, 32).
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-11 17:45 Supporting full Unicode Brian Catlin
2004-05-12 7:44 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-12 8:23 ` Marius Amado Alves [this message]
2004-05-12 10:43 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-12 14:56 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-12 19:09 ` David Starner
2004-05-12 19:25 ` David Starner
2004-05-12 9:41 ` David Starner
2004-05-12 10:16 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-12 10:57 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-12 14:53 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-12 18:55 ` David Starner
2004-05-12 9:30 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-13 1:15 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-13 17:58 ` Brian Catlin
2004-05-13 19:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-14 8:40 ` Andersen Jacob Sparre
2004-05-14 20:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-14 4:00 ` Vadim Godunko
2004-05-14 17:51 ` Brian Catlin
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2004-05-12 12:40 amado.alves
2004-05-12 14:34 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-12 18:24 ` David Starner
2004-05-12 20:04 ` Florian Weimer
2004-05-12 14:12 amado.alves
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