My PC is quite new and has no problem displaying APL characters in general. It's just that when I look at a piece of APL code I have in an emacs session, everything but the lamp shows up correctly for a number of fonts.
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: > David is right. Adrian Smith's APL385, based on Comic Sans, used to be the > reference standard for cross-platform APLs using TrueType fonts. Most > up-to-date monospaced fonts should have Lamp: '⍝' --e.g. AndaleMono (what I > use on my iMac), Courier, FreeMono or Monaco. > > If you're running an antique computer, like I am, be warned that fonts with > the same names on Win and OS X often used to have different subsets of the > utf-8 range, but I'm talking 5-10 years ago now. Worth downloading the > latest version of these fonts, since I found once that a long series of OS > X upgrades had not replaced my existing fonts -- at least, not all of them. > > All the usual APL chars (I say "usual" because historically any overstruck > is a valid APL character) are in: U+2300-23FF (Miscellaneous technical). > Lamp is U+235d (9053). > > What I'd do to verify the APL display capability of any computer platform > is to go to http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/User:Ian_Clark/APLChars > …which shows the character table (⎕AV) of Dyalog APL version 12 in utf-8 > plus a screen snapshot of what it ought to look like. > It's then a question of finding which font your browser is using, or > varying the font until the page shows true. > > > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:30 AM, David Mitchell <davidmitch...@att.net> > wrote: > > > I do not know if it works with emacs, but http://www.dyalog.com/apl-font > > -keyboard.htm apl385 font has lamp: > > > > ⍝ > > > > > > > > On 5/23/2017 05:06, Devon McCormick wrote: > > > >> Not a J question but someone here might know what font I can use to get > >> all > >> the APL characters in emacs (on Windows). > >> I can get almost all of them with many fonts, except for the "lamp" > >> (comment) symbol. > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
