Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> writes: > 2013/7/5 Richard Wordingham <[email protected]> > > I've seen French comments in Fortran that just drop all the > accents - > most disconcerting to read! > This is an old problem. It first appeared because lack of Unicode > support in famous historic programming languages (and it persists > today in common languages like C, C++, Basic, Fortran, Cobol, Ada, > Pascal...), but now it should be noted that many French programmers
This is no longer true of Ada, at least, both the standard and the popular GNAT implementation support Unicode: with Ada.Text_Io; procedure Testu is Grüß : constant String := "Grüezi mitenand"; begin Ada.Text_Io.Put_Line(Grüß); end Testu; -- Ian ◎
