A hopeful sign, perhaps, but it's got a ways to go before becoming a "solved problem".
For example, when I entered the following two lines Yet you said that ⌈ and ⌉ denote floor and ceiling. You also said that < is for comparison, not boxing, they were consecutive lines, with no difference in the line spacing between this paragraph and the preceding paragraph. It won't show up like that when I receive it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Raul Miller <[email protected]> Date: Monday, June 1, 2009 14:26 Subject: Re: [Jchat] [Jprogramming] Italic Fonts? To: Chat forum <[email protected]>, Mike Powell <[email protected]> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Mike Powell > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is it too late to debate this? Or has the concrete truly set? > > J has been around for a couple decades, I think it's a bit late to > be revoking the spellings used in all code written in the language. > > That said, I do hope that at some point J will start supporting > unicode spellings, which would allow the re-introduction of > the symbolism you were referring to. > > One hopeful sign: I was able to read your message, without > problem,including the special characters, and without needing to > do anything > special with my fonts. And, your message had the header: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
