Re: [Jprogramming] apl character support

[Don Guinn]

'þ' is not a literal. It is UTF-8. To treat it as a literal is wrong. You
can't separate the first half of a UTF-8 character from the last half. In
terms of UTF-8 it is one character but $ treats it as two literal
characters. The thing is that when dealing with UTF-8 one can't expect
primitives designed for literal to handle UTF-8.
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