From: beckwb@ois.com (R. William Beckwith)
Subject: Re: Ada + Multi-Byte/Wide Chars = Modern Language?
Date: 25 Jan 1995 22:36:32 -0500
Date: 1995-01-25T22:36:32-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3g75c0$la8@gamma.ois.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1995Jan23.183235.19361@midway.uchicago.edu
Richard L. Goerwitz (goer@quads.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: Ada95 looks to be a useful language.
It is.
: One question, though: Does it fully support wide/multi-byte char-
: acters? For example, am I free to write apps that utilize UTF-8
: or Unicode? Will I be able to interface these programs with the
: outside world (e.g., X)? Does GNAT support these features?
There is a multi-byte character type built into Ada95 called
Wide_Character.
This Wide_Character type maps nicely to Xlib's wchar_t type
(we did this in our Ada95 X11R6 multi-threaded Xlib binding).
wchar_t is used in Xlib's XIMText struct and the Xwc... functions.
... Bill
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-01-23 18:32 Ada + Multi-Byte/Wide Chars = Modern Language? Richard L. Goerwitz
1995-01-24 19:28 ` Robert Dewar
1995-01-26 12:56 ` Gentle
1995-01-28 1:56 ` R. William Beckwith
1995-01-29 17:17 ` Richard L. Goerwitz
1995-01-30 17:27 ` Vincent Broman
1995-02-01 12:13 ` Robert Dewar
1995-02-02 2:53 ` Tucker Taft
[not found] ` <1995Jan27.040708.22494@midway.uchicago.edu>
1995-01-28 18:30 ` Robert Dewar
1995-01-26 3:36 ` R. William Beckwith [this message]
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