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Re: Ada and Unicode

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by: Thomas - Sat, 16 Apr 2022 02:32 UTC

In article <86mttuk5f0.fsf@stephe-leake.org>,
Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:

> DrPi <314@drpi.fr> writes:
>
> > Any way to use source code encoded in UTF-8 ?

> from the gnat user guide, 4.3.1 Alphabetical List of All Switches:
>
> `-gnati`c''
> Identifier character set (`c' = 1/2/3/4/8/9/p/f/n/w). For details
> of the possible selections for `c', see *note Character Set
> Control: 4e.
>
> This applies to identifiers in the source code
>
> `-gnatW`e''
> Wide character encoding method (`e'=n/h/u/s/e/8).
>
> This applies to string and character literals.

afaik, -gnati is deactivated when -gnatW is not n or h (from memory)

so you can't ask both to check that identifiers are in ASCII and to have
literals in UTF-8.

(if it's resolved in new versions it's a good news :-) )

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