> #12 UTF-16 for Processing > by Markus Scherer This is incorrect in saying that Ada uses UTF-16. It supports UCS-2 only. The text of the standard says:
The predefined type Wide_Character is a character type whose values correspond to the 65536 code positions of the ISO 10646 Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). [...] As with the other language-defined names for nongraphic characters, the names FFFE and FFFF are usable only with the attributes (Wide_)Image and (Wide_)Value; they are not usable as enumeration literals. All other values of Wide_Character are considered graphic characters, and have a corresponding character_literal. which doesn't include surrogate code points. The next version of Ada will have 32-bit characters to fully support Unicode - the text of the proposal is here: <http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-00285.TXT?rev=1.14> plus lengthy discussion on the issues. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
