I agree, any day now, all these problems will be solved...... :) I am astonished to report that a cut and paste of the APL below works on my iPod Touch. That is, I can copy it from email and paste it into the note pad, or another email, and the APL characters are displayed "correctly".
The APL does look a little like a ransom note because the characters are all different sizes and face weights - but the glyphs are recognizable ones (well, a little guessing is required for reverse). I don't have a clue how this is even possible... Of course, my old/ancient version of Eudora on the Mac makes something of a mess of it - but more modern clients such as Apple Mail and Thunderbird seem to do OK with it - and it even looks (a little) less ransom-notish.... At 16:19 -0400 2010/06/09, Devon McCormick wrote: >The kind-of-great thing is that several of the APL characters in your post >were legible - full support for the APL character set in the wide world is >imminent - just like it's been for the past 30 years. > >On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I noticed some apl on rosettacode: >> >> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Luhn_test_of_credit_card_numbers#APL >> >> rÅ©LuhnTest digits;even;odd;SumEven >> (odd even)Å©Å´??¨{(n,2)?(?,'0')Å?2Å~nÅ©?(??)÷2}?digits >> SumEvenÅ©{+/+/¨?¨¨?¨2Å~?} >> rÅ©'0'=ů1Å?(+/odd)+(SumEven even) >> >> Unfortunately, when I tried copy and paste into notepad (and into some >> other contexts), the characters came out wrong. >> >> Also, when I tried searching for a symbol I did not recognize, >> google gave me: >> >> Your search - ? - did not match any documents. >> >> Which, to be fair, is the same thing I get when I try searching >> for +. (From context i imagine its the same thing that J >> represents using ~). >> >> Anyways, I have hope that APL characters may some day be >> supported robustly... >> >> -- > > Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
