FORM Strings (GNAT Reference Manual)

### 12.2 FORM Strings ¶

The format of a FORM string in GNAT is:

    "keyword=value,keyword=value,...,keyword=value"

where letters may be in upper or lower case, and there are no spaces between values. The order of the entries is not important. Currently the following keywords defined.

    TEXT_TRANSLATION=[YES|NO|TEXT|BINARY|U8TEXT|WTEXT|U16TEXT]
    SHARED=[YES|NO]
    WCEM=[n|h|u|s|e|8|b]
    ENCODING=[UTF8|8BITS]

The use of these parameters is described later in this section. If an unrecognized keyword appears in a form string, it is silently ignored and not considered invalid.