Hi, The first easy thing I thought of was to write a shell script to parse the Chinese code into standard J. But that's not fun :) and I would prefer using primitives instead.
Tracy Harms-3 wrote: > > Non-ASCII names may, however, be accomplished by way of a customized > preprocessor. > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Sherlock, Ric<[email protected]> > wrote: >>> From: emptist >>> >>> Hi, >>> I wonder if it's supported feature to use two byte chars such as >>> Chinese Chars for varialbe/function names. I have tried typing a >>> few but have got errors. Am I missing something? >> >> No, currently names must be ASCII. There has been previous forum >> discussion about representing J primitives as a single (Unicode) symbols >> if you wish to search for it. >> >> From the Dictionary page "Alphabet and Words": >> http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dict1.htm >> >> "The alphabet is standard ASCII, comprising digits, letters (of the >> English alphabet), the underline (used in names and numbers), ..." >> >> "Names ... begin with a letter and may continue with letters, underlines, >> and digits." >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-it-possible-to-use-Chinese-for-variable-function-names--tp25143855s24193p25146717.html Sent from the J Chat mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
