Good news for those of you interested in what Unix software does already
support UTF-8 fully:
The latest (two days old) release of the GNU Ada95 compiler (gnat-3.11p
on <ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/>) now does fully support UTF-8. For those
of you not familiar with modern Ada: The language has two standard
library types Character and Wide_Character plus corresponding string
types, which the Ada95 standard requires to be interpreted as ISO 8859-1
and ISO 10646-1 values respectively. Much like Java, Ada95 is also
concerned about portability issues much more than for instance C/C++
are, therefore the character set was fixed by the standard. The external
representation of Wide_Characters in text files/pipes used by both the
compiler and the run-time system can now be selected to be UTF-8. This
makes GNAT 3.11p suitable for being used in a pure UTF-8 environment and
you can hack your Greek and Japanese messages directly into the Ada
source code with your favourite UTF-8 editor. (An easy to install Linux
RPM is available from <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/linux-ada/>).
We are making progress ...
Markus
-- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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