I am currently learning to program in Ada and I use Alire to set up my projects. As part of my testing, I occasionally install a crate and investigate it, I found a bug with Honki_tonks_zivilisationen:

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https://alire.ada.dev/crates/honki_tonks_zivilisationen.html

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Create exists, if I try to find it using the web interface I am successful:

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https://alire.ada.dev/search/?q=Honki_tonks_zivilisationen

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or

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https://alire.ada.dev/search/?q=stefan

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However, I don't see the game in the Linux command line:

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$ alr search --crates Honki_tonks_zivilisationen

No hits

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$ alr search --crates Honki

No hits

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$ alr search --crates honki

No hits

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$ alr search --crates stefan

No hits

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Another crate, e.g. Eagle lander, is OK:

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$ alr search --crates eagle

eagle_lander Apollo 11 lunar lander simulator

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Using the command to display all available Alire packages I also don't see it.

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alr search --list --full

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I am using Arch Linux with Alire 1.2.2 version.

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Can I ask to check if I am making a mistake somewhere? Alire is a great tool like Cargo and I would like to use it in my teaching and in the future for all projects.

I am currently learning Ada. I am a developer from Czech Republic and with modern languages (Python, Java, Rust) it is not a problem to use UTF-8 characters in variable names and files. I assumed that the Ada language does not offer this possibility, but I found a very nicely written article by Maxim Reznik, who solved the same problem with Russian alphabet characters:

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https://www.ada-ru.org/utf-8

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For example, if I have a source file named:

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kroužící_orel.adb

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and content (where I test both Russian and Czech alphabet characters):

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with Ada.Wide_Text_IO;

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procedure Kroužící_orel is

Привет : constant Wide_String := "Привет";

Kroužící_opeřenec : constant Wide_String := "Kroužící opeřenec";

begin

Ada.Wide_Text_IO.Put_Line (Привет);

Ada.Wide_Text_IO.Put_Line (Kroužící_opeřenec);

end Kroužící_orel;

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I can compile it using the command:

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gnatmake -gnatWu kroužící_orel.adb

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or

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gnatmake -gnatWu -gnatiw kroužící_orel.adb

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However, if I create a GPR project with the following directory structure:

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/obj

/src - kroužící_orel.adb

kroužící_orel.gpr

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where the file kroužící_orel.gpr contains:

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project Kroužící_orel is

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for Source_Dirs use ("src");

for Object_Dir use "obj";

for Main use ("kroužící_orel.adb");

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package Compiler is

for Switches ("ada") use ("-gnatWu");

for Switches ("ada") use ("-gnatiw");

end Compiler;

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end Kroužící_orel;

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I get an error messages:

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gprbuild kroužící_orel.gpr

kroužící_orel.gpr" is not a valid path name for a project file

kroužící_orel.gpr:1:14: illegal character

kroužící_orel.gpr:1:16: illegal character

kroužící_orel.gpr:1:19: illegal character

kroužící_orel.gpr:1:20: unknown variable "_Orel"

kroužící_orel.gpr:12:10: illegal character

kroužící_orel.gpr:12:11: expected "krouUe5"

gprbuild: "kroužící_orel.gpr" processing failed

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If I rename the files kroužící_orel.adb and kroužící_orel.gpr to krouzici_orel.adb and krouzici_orel.gpr (here I change the directives Project, for Main use and end to Krouzici_orel), the translation with gprbuild is OK.

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All in all, the only problem gprbuild has is when trying to translate source files in UTF-8 encoding. Would any of the more experienced Ada developers have a suggestion for a solution? I like to use the Czech language in my test applications, but on the other hand it's not something I can't live without.

Have a nice morning,

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I've been interested in the Ada language for a while now, and I've decided to focus on it a lot more. I have a basic experience with Python, but Ada has impressed me with its nice readability and static control.

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I've tried Adacore's tutorials and browsed the available books, for a beginning developer I find David C Levy's book Learning Ada 2012 by writing simple games ideal. I live in the Czech Republic and I would like to translate this book into Czech, or adapt it for a modern take on the language (using Alire, replacing AdaGIDE with the more modern Gnat Studio or VSCode etc.). I was thinking of translating and editing along with learning the language from the book.

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However, I don't have contact details for the author to ask if translation and possible editing is possible, although I have tried to find it on the internet.

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Isn't there anyone here on the forum who could provide it for me? I wouldn't want to infringe copyright.

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Thank you very much in advance and goodbye for now

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Ludek Stastny

Czech Republic