I was adding ÁÉÍÓÚÝÞÆÖ to áéíóúýþæö lower change.
I have no problems.
I used to - not now.
I am happy with JQT but not really adjusted to it yet.
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Björn Helgason
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On 1.3.2014 07:22, "bill lam" <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure what is your probleam with tolower. Anyways you can
> re-use your old tolower by converting utf8 to latin1, do
> everything that you used to and then convert back to unicode.
>
> eg. unicode -> latin1
>
> a. {~ 3&u:@ucp 'utf8 or wide unicode'
>
> do not worry latin1 cannot display correctly in J session so
> long as you know its bit pattern is correct.
>
> Сб, 01 мар 2014, Björn Helgason писал(а):
> > I wrote a new tolower for nationalcharactersupport.
> >
> > I have not done that since J turned Unicode.
> >
> > To begin with then I did it in JQT on the Android.
> >
> > JQT has never worked for me in Android before this latest release.
> >
> > It took some time learning how to go about this.
> >
> > Turns out that the national characters and the QT editor do not always
> > agree.
> >
> > Running all lines from the editor could therefore be a bit garbled at
> times.
> >
> > Fixing the lines sometimes worked even if they looked pretty much the
> same
> > before and after.
> >
> > I did this in steps with globals to see what was happening.
> >
> > The short story is that I managed to do this in the end.
> >
> > Started out with the system utility tolower.
> >
> > This two liner is in a script now with 33 lines.
> >
> > tolowerna uses 7 u: in order to work.
> >
> > Now that I have it working I may compress it - or not.
> >
> > Might even put comments in it.
> >
> > I never bothered with this in other new environments because I did not
> > really need it.
> >
> > My older versions where and when I needed this are working merrily in pre
> > Unicode versions of J.
> >
> > I recently was going to work on a crossword assistance for the Android
> and
> > I needed this to work and in J console it did not because of a bug in u:
> >
> > It is nice to be able to get the qt version up and running and I am
> looking
> > forward to do work with wd and pd.
> >
> > Even if this can be made to work there are some quirks with editing
> > sometimes and may need some getting used to.
> >
> > Copy/paste does work but not easy.
> >
> > Sometimes unintentional copy/paste happened.
> >
> > Scrolling and sometimes it looked like lines turned readonly
> >
> > Files or the terminal froze ob occasions.
> >
> > It is a very interesting and promising tool.
> >
> > I found my old way of doing everything in a file and send lines to
> terminal
> > working fine.
> >
> > Viewing and then scrolling the terminal can be a problem.
> >
> > Much of the problems may be me not knowing enough.
> >
> > This is getting quite useful.
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