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From: David Starner <dvdeug@email.ro>
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On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:58:09 -0400, Robert I. Eachus wrote:

> I was not "dismissing" Unicode outside of the BMP as useless, 

Referring to Klingon is the standard way of doing that, whether or
not you intended it that way. It ignores the real usages for one that
often inspires ridicule.

> 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.

Why would you think that? HTML and XML does it. Unless you're dealing with
EBCDIC, you have two encodings to deal with in order to reach a "pragma
charset ("UTF-8");": ASCII and UTF-16, which are trivial to distinguish.

In any case, using it to distinguish source character set isn't evil. It's
using it change the default Text_IO character set, and worse yet, coupling
the two, that's bad.