From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Migrating Ada complier and programs from Windows to LInux Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 11:37:32 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <570262dc$0$4107$e4fe514c@news.kpn.nl> <5703954a$0$4287$e4fe514c@news.kpn.nl> <5703d845$0$4293$e4fe514c@news.kpn.nl> <636a3eb3-616f-427e-82b5-81aa0e5ba64e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bqgfK7NL3xTHnr0WRaLl4g.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:30036 Date: 2016-04-07T11:37:32+02:00 List-Id: 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