See recent thread on this topic: http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2014-April/036885.html
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:21 AM, alexgian <[email protected]> wrote: > I imagine this has been discussed before, if so please feel free to point > me to relevant link. > > Suppose I have a unicode string - I can enter it directly at the terminal - > and I want to box it. E.g. > > > ;/ 7&u: 'κυάμων-απέχεσθαι' > > +--+--+--+--+--+--+-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ > > |κ|υ|ά|μ|ω|ν|-|α|π|έ|χ|ε|σ|θ|α|ι| > > +--+--+--+--+--+--+-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ > > > The J system recognizes the UTF coding, so the relevant space is is > reserved for each character - for instance you can see that the dash takes > only one space, whereas the Greek characters take two. However, the > display is clever enough to render the characters correctly, resulting in > the mismatch of the box offsets. > > > Is there a way around this? No huge deal if there isn't. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
