Morten Kromberg wrote: > There ARE still glitches, but with Unicode they ARE rapidly disappearing. > Even EMACS is probably able to deal with UTF-8 input these days. Re typing, > see: > > http://www.dyalog.com/help/html/relnotes/language%20bar.htm and > http://www.dyalog.com/help/html/relnotes/on%20screen%20keyboard.htm
This might also be a solution: It's for Emacs but could be implemented in other editors and terminals as well. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PrettyLambda The tokens are _typed_ (and saved in the file) as ASCII-sequences but _displayed_ as Unicode characters. In Haskell this is sometimes used to display sqrt, Greek characters, ==, -> (function application) etc. more beautifully. With this idea one could write APL programs with ASCII sequences like iota, rho, transp etc. and have them displayed as Unicode characters (APL symbols are found here: http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html (click "Miscellaneous technical")). When doing copy & paste, Emacs passes the ASCII sequences, not the Unicode characters. With this, APLers could use the same ASCII transliterations in programming as they use in discussing APL programs in mailing lists. As far as I see it, APL symbols are much more important for reading APL code than for writing it, if only because a given line of code is usually much more often read than written. Best regards Bruno Daniel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
