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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: XMLAda & unicode symbols
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 08:14:58 +0200
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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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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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