Ian, Thank you for making this available. Right now I am very caught up with making Visual Studio based terminal work, will visit your work though after I have a fully functional VS J interactive window.
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > That's right, Don, but isn't grapheme the more general term? Unicode.org > http://www.unicode.org/glossary/ offers "what the user thinks of as a > character". > So shouldn't that be "two glyphs representing one grapheme"? > > Different glyphs can have the same code point, eg one can be italicised. > But in the example I gave, the two Mu's actually have different code > points. In some fonts they've gone and used the same glyph. > > Jqt801 seems to come with the session set up to use Menlo. But on my Mac, > Menlo does in fact show Domino. > > u: 16b2339 > ⌹ > > You could try Courier or Courier New instead. But if that fails use APL385 > Unicode, which has definitely got Domino. > > To change the font, type into Term: > > open '~user/config/qtide.cfg' > > Then change: > > FontFamily=Menlo > > to: > > FontFamily=APL385 Unicode > > > If you haven't got APL385 Unicode installed, see: > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/IanClark/APLChars -which lets you download > it. > > > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Looking at that page, I see that U+2339 displays a domino in my Chrome > > browser, but come out as a square in JQt 8. What do I need to do to get J > > to display APL characters? > > > > In your page, I think you need to distinguish the difference between a > > grapheme and a glyph. In the case of 'µ' you have one glyph representing > > two graphemes. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > I've rewritten the section in Guides/UnicodeGettingStarted on exploring > > > Unicode glyphs... > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/UnicodeGettingStarted#A_script_to_explore_Unicode_glyphs > > > > > > and I've provided a downloadable script: cu.ijs (only tested under > j602). > > > > > > Let me know (a) if you can break it, (b) if you reckon it's a useful > > thing > > > to have. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
