You can always yourself a verb to concatenate utf-8. For example: ,&.(7&u:)
Thanks, -- Raul On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Don Guinn <dongu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sometimes I wish that UTF-8 were considered a unique character type > different from literal (2) and unicode (131072). Really bad things happen > if you happen to catenate literal containing UTF-8 characters with unicode. > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Björn Helgason <gos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It is not much I like in m$word but... > > Pointing at a char and pressing alt+u gives me a number alt+u again gives > > the char again. > > > > The u: exercises in J are a bit confusing. > > > > - > > Björn Helgason > > gsm:6985532 > > skype:gosiminn > > On 25.2.2014 18:03, "Don Guinn" <dongu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Searching, counting characters etc. are easier to convert UTF-8 to > > Unicode > > > (wide), doing whatever, then converting back to UTF-8. > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Björn Helgason <gos...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > - > > > > Björn Helgason > > > > gsm:6985532 > > > > skype:gosiminn > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:11 PM, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > 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. 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