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Le Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:37:57 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  =

<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a =C3=A9crit:

> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:43:08 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
>> The only way to safely use a UTF-8 string is opaquely, which means yo=
u  =

>> can
>> store it whole, but any operation on it is performed after decoding i=
t.
>> That's of course the best argument for having it be a separate type.
>
> Yes. It is worth to remember that Ada once was considered a strongly  =

> typed
> language...
It still is!, the trouble is at library level, not language level.


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