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Subject: Re: XMLAda & unicode symbols
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On Sunday, 20 June 2021 at 18:23:35 UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2021-06-20 19:02, 196...@googlemail.com wrote: 
> > On Saturday, 19 June 2021 at 20:53:49 UTC+1, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote: 
> >> On 6/19/21 8:28 PM, 196...@googlemail.com wrote: 
> >>> I'm creating SVG files with XMLAda and I need to have a degree symbol within some text. 
> >>> 
> >>> I have: 
> >>> procedure Add_Min_Max (Min_Max_Str : String; X_Pos : String; Y_Pos : String) is 
> >> The degree symbol is part of Latin-1, so why not include it directly in your string? 
> >> 
> >> S : constant String := "50" & Ada.Characters.Handling.Latin_1.Degree_Sign; 
> >
> > Unfortunately, when XMLAda comes to exporting the DOM tree, it crashed with: 
> > raised UNICODE.CES.INVALID_ENCODING : unicode-ces-utf8.adb:258
> Maybe it expects UTF-8, as most third party Ada libraries do. In that 
> case use: 
> 
> Character'Val (16#C2#) & Character'Val (16#B0#) 

That's the degree symbol, what I really need is the degree centigrade symbol which is U+2103.

Having Character'Val (16#21#) & Character'Val (16#03#) fails at runtime.

I'm sure it's easy enough, and when I get it, I'll be banging my head against the desk.