On Tue, 26 May 2009, Morten Kromberg wrote:
> Is your argument that the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans won't be
> confused because they gave up on the idea that computers could
> compare symbols long ago? :-)
There was cjk text processing long long time ago. ;-)
I know 'what you see is not what you get' and will insert the extra
ucp (convert to wide character) accordingly.
text=. ucp '身体 shēn tǐ 身体 shēn tǐ 水果 shuǐ guǒ 蔬菜 shū cài '
the rest should be the same for both dyalog and j.
>
> In Dyalog APL, I can go to http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/, and copy
> the first line of text in the section labeled 2 into my session:
>
> text←'身体 shēn tǐ 身体 shēn tǐ 水果 shuǐ guǒ 蔬菜 shū cài '
> ∪text ⍝ Unique symbols
> 身体 shēntǐ水果ugǒ蔬菜ūcài
> ∪(255<⎕UCS text)/text ⍝ Unique symbols outside ANSI range
> 身体ēǐ水果ǒ蔬菜ū
> text[⍋text] ⍝ OK, pretty meaningless :-)
> cghhhhinnssssttuuàēēūǐǐǐǒ体体果水菜蔬身身
>
> ⎕dr text ⍝ Data Type (160 = 16-bit Unicode chars)
> 160
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bill lam [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 26. maj 2009 17:55
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Jchat] No More APL
>
> I agree that approach taken by dyalog can be less surprising for
> Europeans. OTOH UTF-8 will not be that confusing in the Far East
> because CJK have use multibyte character set for decades.
>
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