On Thu, 28 May 2009, Morten Kromberg wrote:
> Bill lam wrote:
>
> > the rest should be the same for both dyalog and j.
>
> Yes, I know (and I refer to this in my paper on APL and Unicode).
> But I don't agree with the choice of utf-8 as the primary internal
> representation - and having two internal representations. Seems to
> me to be the wrong choice for "an array language" which otherwise
> goes to great lengths to hide data types. With j, the internal
> representation "in your face".
Morten,
Actually I agree with you that this would be more user friendly.
Dyalog is fortunate that it can learn from J's experience that some
users can not see why ö is 2 byte. I also envy dyalog which supports
unicode beyond bmp.
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