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Subject: Re: UTF-8 Output and "-gnatW8"
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 10:39:07 +0200
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On 29.03.16 00:48, Michael Rohan wrote:
> 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.  BTW, the performance of GNAT for such a concatenated string is pretty dismal.

That source character set issue is probably resolved in no time
once NATO, inasmuch as it is a software organization, will require
that compilers automatically detect UTF-16.