Kym Farnik wrote:
> 2006-04-01 [Australian Central Time]
>
> Now that J601 has Unicode support could we have Unicode names (nouns
> verbs etc.) instead of the basic ASCII limitation?
>
> Then you could define, ({symbolically} as some email programs do not
> do Unicode), items like...
>
> {iota} =: i.
> {rho} =: $
> {divide} =: %
> {epsilon} =: e.
>
> Etc. (we could also have the APL comment character as an equivalent of NB.)
>
> Then you could tranliterate all your old APL code into J or just write
> J flavoured APL code.
>
> People would have the choice of coding with ASCII or with APL like
> symbols. I already use "APL385 Unicode" as my font in J601.
Here is a good reason for supporting Unicode - to allow those still
using APL to move quickly and painlessly to J. Mind you, we still have
to support the 'Ace of Spades' for assignment, perhaps in J7?
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