Can you show some examples of what would be displayed? On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Don Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Don for your response. I'm afraid that I haven't made my point > clear. In response to your two comments: > 1.. "Wanting characters outside of standard ASCII is what plagued APL. No > way to display and hard to enter. The display is not a problem any more but > entry still is" > 2.. "But it's not really difficult to intercept J input to handle say > UTF-8 characters entered and convert what is displayed to UTF-8 to display > special symbols instead of the J primitives. > I am not suggesting using anything but standard ASCII. My statement was > "Required exactly the same keystrokes in the "A" mode as in the "J" mode." > The system wouldn't intercept J input - it would only intercept J output. > > All I am changing is the perception of what is taking place. > 1.. The system can print any shape of symbol we want on the screen - and > that symbol would be a representation not of one stored symbol, but of the > two ASCII characters keyed into and stored in the system. > 2.. Marking that symbol on the keyboard beside the first ASCII character > keyed only gives the perception that that character is being entered - not > the reality. > Don Watson > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
