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From: kinder@inteloa.intel.com (David B. Kinder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: 8-Bit characters for Ada
Keywords: character
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Date: 15 Nov 88 00:03:37 GMT
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AI-420 (submitted over 3 years ago) brought up the issue of an an 8-bit 
character type.  This should be a hot issue with non-US Ada customers who 
should reasonably insist on support for their (non-English) characters in 
STRING variables and in TEXT_IO.  I've seen packages that define a new 
extended character type, however this character type can't be used with 
TEXT_IO, so a whole new (and non-standard) I/O package must be used.  

Are there Ada users concerned with this problem?  Have there been any 
further thoughts by the LMC/ARG on supporting 8-bit characters?  Can we get 
some definitive ruling on AI-420?  What do you Ada developers think about 
direct language support for 8-bit characters?  

-- David Kinder, BiiN