Henry has nearly finished a JE project for improved display of boxed unicode data. This will probably be released in a beta in about 2 weeks. Short story is that display of boxed unicode data will look the way you want it to look.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:08 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
