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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada and Unicode
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:04:06 +0100
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> "Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message 
> news:lybla9574t.fsf@pushface.org...
>> Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> It's actually a non-issue for Byron, because the file-reader does a
>>> BOM-check [IIRC defaulting to ASCII in the absence of a BOM]
>>
>> GNAT does a BOM-check also. gnatchop does one better, carrying the BOM
>> from the top of the input file through to each output file.
>
> That's what the documentation says, but it didn't work on ACATS source files 
> (the few which use Unicode start with a BOM). I had to write a bunch of 
> extra code in the script generator to stick the options on the Unicode files 
> (that worked). Perhaps that's been fixed since, but I wouldn't trust it 
> (burned once, twice shy).

It does now: just checked again with c250001, c250002.