You are not dealing with unicode. You have UTF8.
]s=. 7 u: 'ఝ' ,'a','ఝ' NB. s is converted to unicode.
ఝaఝ
$s
3
<"0 s
+---+-+---+
|ఝ|a|ఝ|
+---+-+---+
But the display still is messed up because the display first converts the
unicode to UTF8. Then does a byte count to determine how many boxing
characters to put around the data. But there is still a problem as many
unicode/UTF8 characters beyond ASCII are proportional. Notice how wide the
first and last characters are compared to the "a".
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:08 PM, robert therriault <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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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