Re: GNAT vs UTF-8 source file names

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 04/07/2017 à 19:30, Shark8 a écrit :
> This is why I maintain that unicode is crap -- a mistake along the
> lines of C that will likely take *decades* for the rest of "the
> industry" / computer science to realize.
Please don't make such statements until you understand all the issues -
the problem of character sets is incredibly complicated.

>> I have to say that, great as it would be to have this fixed, the
>> changes required would be extensive, and I can’t see that anyone
>> would think it worth the trouble.
> One of unicode's biggest problems is that there's no longer any
> coherent vision -- it started off as a idea to offer one code-point
> per character in human language, but then shifted to glyph-building
> (hence combining characters), and as such lacks a unifying
> principle.
The unifying principle is the normalization forms. The fact that there
are several normalization forms comes from the difference between human
and computer needs.

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