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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada
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"Justin Sq" <jsquirek@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>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.
>
>Perhaps I will submit an AI for it.

Please don't waste our (my) time with that; there already is an AI for 
"additional internationalization", which would cover any solution (including 
the stupid one).

Note that overloading routines for Wide_String and the like doesn't work 
because no calls could use string literals in that case (which would be 
wildly incompatible); the routines would need an entirely new set of times.

I call this the "Tom Petty" solution, because it would require a trip into 
the Wide_Wide_Open to do that. ;-)

                             Randy.