Yes, that's what I do. But it is a problem waiting to bite the unaware.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. It would be simpler to allow all
> > Unicode
> > > > > > > > characters be considered letters, but that might lend to
> other
> > > > > > problems.
> > > > > > > >
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