Re: Ada and Unicode

["Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>]

On 19/04/2021 10:08, Stephen Leake wrote:
>> What's the way to manage Unicode correctly ?
> 
> There are two issues: Unicode in source code, that the compiler must
> understand, and Unicode in strings, that your program must understand.

And this is there the Ada standard gets it wrong, in the encodings 
package re utf-8.

Unicode is a superset of 7-bit ASCII not Latin 1. The high bit in the 
leading octet indicates whether there are trailing octets. See 
https://github.com/Lucretia/uca/blob/master/src/uca.ads#L70 for the data 
layout. The first 128 "characters" in Unicode match that of 7-bit ASCII, 
not 8-bit ASCII, and certainly not Latin 1. Therefore this:

package Ada.Strings.UTF_Encoding
    ...
    subtype UTF_8_String is String;
    ...
end Ada.Strings.UTF_Encoding;

Was absolutely and totally wrong.