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   2 --                                                                          --
   3 --                         GNAT RUN-TIME COMPONENTS                         --
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  31
  32 --  This package contains the routine used to convert wide strings and wide
  33 --  wide strings to strings for use by wide and wide wide character attributes
  34 --  (value, image etc.) and also by the numeric IO subpackages of
  35 --  Ada.Text_IO.Wide_Text_IO and Ada.Text_IO.Wide_Wide_Text_IO.
  36
  37 with System.WCh_Con;
  38
  39 package System.WCh_WtS is
  40    pragma Pure;
  41
  42    function Wide_String_To_String
  43      (S  : Wide_String;
  44       EM : System.WCh_Con.WC_Encoding_Method) return String;
  45    --  This routine simply takes its argument and converts it to a string,
  46    --  using the internal compiler escape sequence convention (defined in
  47    --  package Widechar) to translate characters that are out of range
  48    --  of type String. In the context of the Wide_Value attribute, the
  49    --  argument is the original attribute argument, and the result is used
  50    --  in a call to the corresponding Value attribute function. If the method
  51    --  for encoding is a shift-in, shift-out convention, then it is assumed
  52    --  that normal (non-wide character) mode holds at the start and end of
  53    --  the result string. EM indicates the wide character encoding method.
  54    --  Note: in the WCEM_Brackets case, we only use the brackets encoding
  55    --  for characters greater than 16#FF#. The lowest index of the returned
  56    --  String is equal to S'First.
  57
  58    function Wide_Wide_String_To_String
  59      (S  : Wide_Wide_String;
  60       EM : System.WCh_Con.WC_Encoding_Method) return String;
  61    --  Same processing, except for Wide_Wide_String
  62
  63 end System.WCh_WtS;