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Subject: Re: XMLAda & unicode symbols
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On Monday, 21 June 2021 at 16:37:21 UTC+1, Simon Wright wrote:
> "196...@googlemail.com" <196...@googlemail.com> writes: 
> 
> > 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.
> That's because the utf-8 encoding is 3 octets, 0xE2 0x84 0x83

Yup, that works, but just how the heck do you get from U+2103 to those 3 octets?

I can see from http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~richard/utf-8.cgi?input=2103&mode=hex that it gives it.

Anyway, the dent in my desk is now a couple of mill deeper.

Thanks