From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,47bc849aad30d586 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-31 06:43:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed Date: 31 May 2002 09:34:59 -0400 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (skates.gsfc.nasa.gov) Message-ID: References: <39ee2480.0205282322.3bbd4673@posting.google.com> <839J8.1076$r5.175696924@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 1022852546 17565 128.183.220.71 (31 May 2002 13:42:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 May 2002 13:42:26 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25080 Date: 2002-05-31T13:42:26+00:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus writes: > tmoran@acm.org wrote: > : so it > : doesn't matter if it's ASCII or whatever. If you are going to allow safe > : concurrent access, the config file obviously can't be a simple ASCII file. > > Not only that. It seems quite plausible, with Ada being capable of > handling a substantial subset of Unicode, and for more than one > other reason, to store something more than > (US) American Standard Code for Information Interchange > wich isn't even enough for directly storing all US american words, > let alone anything that might be needed in Canada, Brazil, > Russia, France, Korea, Egypt, Japan, ... > (E.g. error messages.) Excellent point. Let's at least consider using Wide_String. We'll have to convert to String to use 'Value, but that's not a big deal. -- -- Stephe