• Added a new utility zbinfo to query built-in data. This was released as an example previously (the dumplocale example which has been dropped).
• Added encoding support to convert Wide_String values to String based on an encoding schema, e.g., UTF-8, ISO8859-2, CP932, SHIFT_JIS, etc. To fully use this functionality, narrow accessors should be used which, when printing, use Stream_IO to avoid interaction between the Text_IO and encoded values. The list of supported encodings is available via zbinfo --list-encodings.
• The default locale is now en_US.UTF-8 if no other locale can be determined from the environment.
• Updated the documentation (and website) to use the Sphinx documentation system.
• Updated and expanded the documentation. Additional documentation is, however, needed. Switch to gnatdoc from gnathtml to generate the source code based documentation.
• Restricted the usage of the -gnatW8 compilation option to just the source files containing UTF-8 encoded strings: the message pool file generated by the zbmcompile utility.
• Added option to the zbmcompile utility to generate ASCII only source files (-A option).
• Added option to the zbmcompile utility to define handling of non-Ada message keys when generating accessors (the -X option).
• Updated the build to use gprbuild instead of gnatmake.
• Updated the build to use -gnat2012 in all gpr files.
• Switched from AUnit to Ahven for unit testing.
• Minor source code changes based on stricter checks with GNAT 2016.

Tags: localization,l10n,Globalization,g11n

Tags: localization,l10n,Globalization,g11n