I am in the process of extending some of the type and shape visualizations that
I have done in the past [0] into the realm of unicode.
If you look through the archives of these message lists you will find that
unicode can be quite confounding, but my question is relatively simple.
I would like to take
[s=. 2 6 $ 'ఝ' ,'a','ఝ' NB. � results from 224 176 157 being broken
across dimensions
ఝa��
�ఝa�
[encode=. a. i. s NB. shape of 2 6 refers to the encoding numbers not
the number of characters displayed
224 176 157 97 224 176
157 224 176 157 97 224
and convert encode to a form where the encoding for each character is in it's
own box. Of course, this would be a verb that can work with any literal array
not just the example given.
[r=. 2 4 $ 224 176 157 ; 97 ; 224 ; 176 ; 157 ; 224 176 157 ; 97 ; 224
┌───────────┬───────────┬───┬───┐
│224 176 157│97 │224│176│
├───────────┼───────────┼───┼───┤
│157 │224 176 157│97 │224│
└───────────┴───────────┴───┴───┘
which could be converted back to
{&a. each r
┌───┬───┬─┬─┐
│ఝ│a │�│�│
├───┼───┼─┼─┤
│� │ఝ│a│�│
└───┴───┴─┴─┘
With this in place it may be possible to have the literal view of unicode
display a little more consistently
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Cheers, bob
[0] Video of Enhanced display of literals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzjfJjGb5cs
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