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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Migrating Ada complier and programs from Windows to LInux
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 11:37:32 +0200
Date: 2016-04-07T11:37:32+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ne59ph$2b4$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 636a3eb3-616f-427e-82b5-81aa0e5ba64e@googlegroups.com

On 07/04/2016 11:18, vincent.diemunsch@gmail.com wrote:
> Le mardi 5 avril 2016 17:52:06 UTC+2, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
>> Regarding filenames, you should not use
>> Ada.Directories, that is not portable. Since you are using GtkAda
>> anyway, use GIO instead of Ada.Directories. GIO is portable.
>
> could you elaborate ? Why is Ada.Directories not portable ? What is
> the key point GIO offers that allows portability ?

GIO specifically tells that filenames are UTF-8, even on Windows, which 
is ASCII/UTF-16 (newer versions) or ASCII/UCS-2 (older versions).

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de


      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-07  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-04 12:44 Migrating Ada complier and programs from Windows to LInux ldries46
2016-04-04 16:46 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-04-04 17:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-05 10:36   ` ldries46
2016-04-05 12:59     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-05 15:22       ` ldries46
2016-04-05 15:45         ` ldries46
2016-04-05 15:51         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-07  9:18           ` vincent.diemunsch
2016-04-07  9:37             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
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