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Subject: Re: Ada and Unicode
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Le 18/04/2021 à 02:02, Luke A. Guest a écrit :
> 
> On 17/04/2021 23:03, DrPi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a good knowledge of Unicode : code points, encoding...
>> What I don't understand is how to manage Unicode strings with Ada. 
>> I've read part of ARM and did some tests without success.
> 
> It's a mess imo. I've complained about it before. The official stance is 
> that the standard defines that a compiler should accept the ISO 
> equivalent of Unicode and that a compiler should implement a flawed 
> system, especially UTF-8 types, 
> http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-A-4-11.html
> 
> Unicode is a bit painful, I've messed about with it to some degree here 
> https://github.com/Lucretia/uca.
> 
> There are other attempts:
> 
> 1. http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/strings_edit.htm
> 2. https://github.com/reznikmm/matreshka (very heavy, many layers)
> 3. https://github.com/Blady-Com/UXStrings
> 
> I remember getting an exception converting from my unicode_string to a 
> wide_wide string for some reason ages ago.
Thanks