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From: "Marius Amado Alves" <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Subject: Re: Supporting full Unicode
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Date: 2004-05-12T09:23:51+01:00

> 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).