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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5bcc293dc5642650 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.204.140.67 with SMTP id h3mr207489bku.3.1318930876422; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:41:16 -0700 (PDT) Path: l23ni13138bkv.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!feeder.news-service.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why no Ada.Wide_Directories? Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:41:14 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <9937871.172.1318575525468.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prib32> <418b8140-fafb-442f-b91c-e22cc47f8adb@y22g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <7156122c-b63f-487e-ad1b-0edcc6694a7a@u10g2000prl.googlegroups.com> <1tggwi1yicf5z.1q3xra9r00oyb$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: KHj9AOPOidgt0YptnGtG5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.51 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18543 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2011-10-18T11:41:14+02:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:55:07 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =C3=A9crit: > No, Unicode is a standard describes character mappings. Both UTF-8 and= > Latin-1 are encodings. Latin-1 as an encoding has a property that ther= e = > is 1-1 octet to code point correspondence, at the cost that some (most= ) = > of > code points cannot be represented by the encoding. UTF-8 lacks this > property, To not mislead people, don't forget UTF-8 too has this property, in rega= rd = to US-ASCII, which also is an Unicode subset. -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [Ep= igrams on = Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale University] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [Idem] Java: Write once, Never revisit