On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:38:27 +0100 Ian Clifton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 Most languages have long allowed 'implementation-defined' characters in source code files; the extent to which it is allowed outside comments has varied. > This is no longer true of Ada, at least, both the standard and the > popular GNAT implementation support Unicode: > Grüß : constant String := "Grüezi mitenand"; That only demonstrates Latin-1 support! It seems the current Ada standard supports the original ISO 10646 31 bits. Richard.
