Oh sorry, A is not codepoint.

On Oct 19, 2017 3:15 AM, "bill lam" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Will 7 u: A or 8 u: A work?
>
> On Oct 19, 2017 1:58 AM, "Raul Miller" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Or,
>>    A{a.
>>
>>    A{a.
>> 鼠牛虎兔龍蛇馬羊猴鸡狗豬
>>
>> I am not quite sure why u: does not handle A properly, but a
>> workaround there might be to manually convert to utf-16 which u: will
>> handle properly.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> utf8to16=:3 :0
>>   if. 'literal'-: datatype y do. y=.a.i.y end.
>>   bits=.(8#2)#:y
>>   r=.''
>>   j=.0
>>   while.j<#y do.
>>     select. (j{bits)i.0
>>       case. 0 do.
>>         r=. r,j{y
>>         j=. j+1
>>       case. 2 do.
>>         r=. r,64#.((j+i.2){y)-192 128
>>         j=. j+2
>>       case. 3 do.
>>         r=. r,64#.((j+i.3){y)-224 128 128
>>         j=. j+3
>>       case. 4 do.
>>         r=. r,64#.((j+i.4){y)-240 128 128 128
>>         j=. j+4
>>       case. do. assert. 'invalid utf-8 argument'
>>     end.
>>   end.
>>   r
>> )
>>
>>    u: utf8to16 A
>> 鼠牛虎兔龍蛇馬羊猴鸡狗豬
>>
>> But A{a. (or the equivalent {&a. A) is still simpler.
>>
>> I hope this helps,
>>
>> --
>> Raul
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 1:46 PM, robert therriault
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi David,
>> >
>> > You can use {&a. to convert the encoded utf-8 into the characters
>> >
>> >    A=:  16be9 16bbc 16ba0 16be7 16b89 16b9b 16be8 16b99 16b8e
>> >    A=:A,16be5 16b85 16b94 16be9 16bbe 16b8d 16be8 16b9b 16b87
>> >    A=:  16be9 16bbc 16ba0 16be7 16b89 16b9b 16be8 16b99 16b8e
>> >    A=:A,16be5 16b85 16b94 16be9 16bbe 16b8d 16be8 16b9b 16b87
>> >    A=:A,16be9 16ba6 16bac 16be7 16bbe 16b8a 16be7 16b8c 16bb4
>> >    A=:A,16be9 16bb8 16ba1 16be7 16b8b 16b97 16be8 16bb1 16bac
>> >    A
>> > 233 188 160 231 137 155 232 153 142 229 133 148 233 190 141 232 155 135
>> 233 166 172 231 190 138 231 140 180 233 184 161 231 139 151 232 177 172
>> >    {&a. A
>> > 鼠牛虎兔龍蛇馬羊猴鸡狗豬
>> >
>> > Cheers, bob
>> >
>> >> On Oct 18, 2017, at 10:20 AM, David Lambert <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> How in j to have the characters display correctly?
>> >
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