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On 19/04/2021 12:15, Simon Wright wrote:
> Maxim Reznik <reznikmm@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> воскресенье, 18 апреля 2021 г. в 01:03:14 UTC+3, DrPi:
>>>
>>> Any way to use source code encoded in UTF-8 ?
>>
>> Yes, with GNAT just use "-gnatW8" for compiler flag (in command line
>> or your project file):
> 
> But don't use unit names containing international characters, at any
> rate if you're (interested in compiling on) Windows or macOS:

There's no such thing as "character" any more and we need to move away 
from that. Unicode has the concept of a code point which is 32 bit and 
any "character" as we know it, or glyph, can consist of multiple code 
points.

In my lib, nowhere near ready (whether it will be I don't know), I 
define octets, Unicode_String (utf-8 string) which is array of octets 
and Code_Points which an iterator produces as it iterates over those 
strings. I was intending to have an iterator for grapheme clusters and 
other units.