My email system peppers j forum mail with question marks. 40% of the j
session characters in a recent post came to me as question marks. As has
been previously mentioned, changing the box drawing characters might
help to alleviate the problem. Hence I offer this box character toggling
verb, which I hope we'll use when preparing forum messages. Thank you.
V=:'(9!:7)@:(( 11{.16}.a.)&[^:(''+'' = '
V=:V,'{.@:(9!:6)@(0&$)))''+++++++++|-'''
bs=: 3 :V NB. niladic box switch
bs'' NB. example use
a: [ bs '' NB. demonstrate the effect
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a: [ bs ''
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++
a: [ bs ''
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