Re: UTF-8 Output and "-gnatW8"

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

<rieachus@comcast.net> wrote in message 
news:3a65e71c-41ee-49eb-916d-c0be8be9abc6@googlegroups.com...
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>Second are the character set(s) when an Ada program reads from or writes to 
>files
>or other devices.  The Ada standard defines that binding for Text_IO, 
>Wide_Text_IO,
>etc.  Notice that this is about character sets, not character encodings. 
>You could have
>a Form string "UTF8" for files, with a Wide_Text_IO version that understood 
>it.  Same
>for "Unicode" and so on.  The program would only see ISO-10646 characters, 
>but the
>generated files would be much smaller. ;-)

Or you could use Ada.Strings.Encodings to convert the string to UTF-8 and 
then use Ada.Text_IO to output it. (This is an end-run round strong typing, 
sadly, but it works.)

                                   Randy.

P.S. Robert, nice to hear from you again. It's been a while, hope you're 
doing well.