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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: XMLAda & unicode symbols
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:47:02 +0100
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"196...@googlemail.com" <1963bib@googlemail.com> writes:

> 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.

Google was my friend (not that site, tho)