a. and especially i. a. - looking up chars indexes used to be useful.
It is not as easy anymore.
The national chars are often not in there with a single number.
Sometimes two or three.
Reading files also sometimes with unicode markings.
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Björn Helgason
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On 25.2.2014 14:03, "Don Guinn" <dongu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried that a while back. I extended the table for ;: to treat the bytes
> for _128{.a to be treated as letters which made all multi-byte UTF-8
> treated as alphas. Statements were broken into tokens properly. But then I
> found that the interpreter used the top half of a. internally. I mentioned
> that in the forum a while back when someone noticed that some character in
> there acted weird. Roger said that could be changed if needed. Might be
> easy for Roger to change that but it didn't look so easy to me.
>
> I looked at the tables for Unicode (wide characters) and in the form of
> UTF-8 and couldn't see any easy to distinguish the category of a character.
> Those that one would consider an alpha were mixed in with graphics and
> controls. APL characters were not grouped together but scattered all over
> the place.
>
> For trying it out and seeing what happens shouldn't be too difficult to see
> how it would work but there are a lot of questions to answer before making
> it a production tool.
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> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:11 PM, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > This seems simpler. The first thing to do is build a prototype
> > implementaton,
> > and then we can see what are other problems out there.
> >
> > Пн, 24 фев 2014, Don Guinn писал(а):
> > > A middle ground might be to allow for some Unicode (UTF-8) to be
> > > considered letters like a-z,A-Z. Then one could name APL iota to
> > something
> > > like i. . In addition, it would allow non-English languages not be
> > > restricted to ASCII characters for names. Greek letters in mathematics
> > > could be used as names making statements look a little more like
> > > traditional mathematics. It would be simpler to allow all Unicode
> > > characters be considered letters, but that might lend to other
> problems.
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