From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: XMLAda & unicode symbols
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 08:14:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sapap2$ks2$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: saogms$qdj$1@dont-email.me
On 2021-06-21 00:50, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> On 6/20/21 8:47 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On 2021-06-20 20:21, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
>>
>> That ship has sailed. I would say that any use of String as Latin-1 is
>> a mistake now because most of the libraries would use UTF-8 encoding
>> instead of Latin-1.
>
> I have never subscribed to the illogic that if enough people make the
> same mistake, it ceases to be a mistake.
The mistake is on the Ada type system design side. People repurposed
Latin-1 strings for UTF-8 strings because there was no other feasible way.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2021-06-19 18:28 XMLAda & unicode symbols 196...@googlemail.com
2021-06-19 19:53 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-06-20 17:02 ` 196...@googlemail.com
2021-06-20 17:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-20 17:58 ` 196...@googlemail.com
2021-06-20 18:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-21 19:40 ` 196...@googlemail.com
2021-06-21 20:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-21 15:37 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-21 19:49 ` 196...@googlemail.com
2021-06-21 20:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-21 20:47 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-22 0:30 ` Spiros Bousbouras
2021-06-20 18:21 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-06-20 18:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-20 22:50 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-06-21 4:16 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2021-06-21 9:39 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-06-21 6:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2021-06-19 21:24 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-20 17:10 ` 196...@googlemail.com
2021-06-21 15:26 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-21 18:33 ` Emmanuel Briot
2021-06-21 20:06 ` 196...@googlemail.com
2021-06-21 21:26 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-22 6:52 ` Emmanuel Briot
2021-06-21 21:22 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-21 6:07 ` Vadim Godunko
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