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Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> You CAN imbed use of UTF-8 for Ada.Text_IO files in the form string. But 
> -gnatWa (for various values of a) tells the compiler how to interpret 
> the character set in the SOURCE file.  That is a little difficult to do 
> in the source file itself.

Ada (in ARM-strict mode) cannot use byte order markers (BOM)
to determine (or partially determine) encodings?

Would it be worthwhile for an AI to allow a file to start
with a BOM and then a comment whose contents are functionally
similar to the things an XML first line using to specify
encoding?

-- 
Wes Groleau
   "Ideas are more powerful than guns,
    We would not let our enemies have guns;
    why should we let them have ideas?"
                                -- Jozef Stalin