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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-18 12:27:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.linkpendium.com!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 14:27:08 -0500 Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:27:07 -0400 From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <406EB6D2.8030801@noplace.com> <87d66pyw1g.fsf@insalien.org> <406EEC35.7040109@noplace.com> <874qs0zvy1.fsf@insalien.org> <40714C98.90601@noplace.com> <1073gv22t969q5a@corp.supernews.com> <40729B9D.30906@noplace.com> <1076000ef5oj06f@corp.supernews.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.90.114 X-Trace: sv3-9YRvjLD4TPc6+Dn5QvXYqHX3HT1pHH+ajUjHmDeDT1cYABkfOw6jjQPW82HPZVIAebeFBs/ORxMmmQ8!PHmb+nTw/2YqI7G/iHOEcSGeCzd1ItLfeWmFLtwRkZeD3Tx1rq1uC1tOQ37zuw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7313 Date: 2004-04-18T15:27:07-04:00 List-Id: David Starner wrote: > Sure they can. Shift-JIS and EUC just look like ASCII until you start > sticking in non-ASCII characters. If you put the pragma charset > ("Shift-JIS"); before any Japanese characters, the compiler will have no > problem reading it. Again this is how HTML does it; do you really need > more variety of character sets in source code than HTML or XML? The if above is the problem. Sure, IF you are willing to impose some discipline on the source files at a meta-level, you can deal with this. But as I said, GNAT wants to be able to accept EXISTING files. So as I said, if you want to specify the character set in the source, fine. GNAT supports that (although I prefer to specify the character set for a library as a whole, also supported). But if you have files which were originally targeted at some non-GNAT environment, GNAT wants to make it possible to use them WITHOUT modification. -- Robert I. Eachus "The terrorist enemy holds no territory, defends no population, is unconstrained by rules of warfare, and respects no law of morality. Such an enemy cannot be deterred, contained, appeased or negotiated with. It can only be destroyed--and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the business at hand." -- Dick Cheney