I looked at the wiki link you mentioned. The string of APL characters after "Chars specific to APL for reference use:" looked fine to me when I browsed it with Firefox 3.6.12, but were as you described when I used IE8.
I copied and pasted the text into a variety of apps and had this result: Looked like valid APL characters after paste: MS Word Open Office Writer Adobe Photoshop using Cambria Math font J602 using Cambria Math font Displayed with boxes instead of APL character in the middle of text after paste: J602 using Courier New font Notepad Wordpad Jedit -- David Mitchell On 11/3/2010 17:15, Brian Schott wrote: > Ian, > > Another annoying detail has me flummoxed. Some symbols in the jwiki > links look weird and I don't know a way around it. For example at the > following link Ironically the apl characters are pretty clear but some > others are not. Look at the very last line at that link: All the left > most characters look good and the last 3 characters are good, but a > long string of the rest of the characters are boxes or boxes > containing gibberish. I may just have my browser or wiki CSS settings > wrong, but this is very disorienting and I guess I would suggest that > your article give some guidance about how to circumvent the problem. > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/APL2JPhraseBook > > Less problematic on that same page is that the section delimiters > appear to me to be mis-positioned lines. I would have expected the > lines to separate sections. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
