From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: UTF-8 Output and "-gnatW8"
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:44:35 +0200
Date: 2016-03-29T09:44:35+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nddbpq$1qq5$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6406289c-06a8-46d1-a633-8a1c8a22f79b@googlegroups.com
On 29/03/2016 00:48, Michael Rohan wrote:
> My approach is to encode myself and write the encoded Character via
> Text_IO,
Which is a bad idea, you know. Text_IO is not guaranteed to support
UTF-8 encoding. Actually rather the opposite since Character is declared
Latin-1. You should use Stream_IO instead of Text_IO.
> It does, however, feel like there is something missing where it's
> "difficult" to have a Wide_String literal without having to have extra
> meta data for compiler (-gnatW8) or having a relatively cumbersome
> concatenation of Wide_Character's based on code points.
Why don't you use UTF-8 strings instead?
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-29 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-24 17:23 UTF-8 Output and "-gnatW8" Michael Rohan
2016-03-24 22:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-03-24 22:34 ` Michael Rohan
2016-03-25 19:15 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-03-25 5:54 ` rieachus
2016-03-25 19:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-03-28 22:48 ` Michael Rohan
2016-03-29 7:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2016-03-29 8:39 ` G.B.
2016-03-29 22:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-04 10:52 ` G.B.
2016-04-05 0:39 ` Randy Brukardt
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