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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 09:24:39 +0200
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Date: 2017-09-01T09:24:39+02:00
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On 01/09/2017 05:51, Justin Sq wrote:
> There is a lot of high-level discussion here regarding the many 
> issues with Ada strings and UTF8 - and I agree for the most part,
> but I think the solution here would be to add some new versions or
> amendments to Text_IO and Directories that take Wide_Strings and
> Wide_Wide_Strings for paths. It would be intuitive, solve the
> problem, and fit the style of the runtime

This will break a lot of code that uses string literals in arguments as 
well as the code with operations like:

    function Extension (Name : in String) return String;

And it would not solve the problem with Unbounded_String.

P.S. There is no solution based on overloading with unrelated string and 
characters types. The packages like Wide_Text_IO was an attempt to keep 
types unrelated while overloading at package level. Surprise, that 
didn't work either.

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