Re: Character Sets (plain text police report)

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> My understanding was that the 16 bit characters covered most of the
> practical uses one would find in modern languages. The reason for the
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                   And modern languages here means?

> So possibly if there was some kind of variant of Text_IO that dealt
> with UTF-8 files, it might be useful. You'd need special data types
> and operations, but that wouldn't be insurmountable. Some set of
> packages that would be wrapped around UTF-8 as an extension to Ada or
> part of a standard Ada library might make sense.

That would be very useful yes.
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