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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Newbie questions re Unicode (1)
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:59:44 +0100
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Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> writes:

> Typically what I do here is:
> (1) Right click the text-area in GPS, select properties; in the dialog
> change the setting "character-set" to "Unicode UTF-8".
> (2) At the top of the file, after "Pragma Ada_2012;" put " Pragma
> Wide_Character_Encoding(UTF8);"
> (3) Edit Project Properties: under Build, Switches, Ada there's a
> text-box at the bottom; append "-gnatw8".

Do you have to do all 3?

Personally I wouldn't bother with (2) because (a) it's the default;
unless (b) you're using GNAT CE, in which case it's the only
possibility!