That's the easiest way. A harder way without conversion to unicode is the keep bytes higher 127 in sequence during reversing, but beware of contiguous multi bytes. this needs to study utf8 encoding rfc or whatnot.
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 6:30 AM Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > Raul said what I was thinking. > > The point is, a literal string is UTF-8 (i. e. bytes) NOT unicode. When > you reverse the bytes in a UTF-8 string you get garbage. You need to > convert to Unicode first, as Raul showed. > > Henry Rich > > On 9/12/2019 4:54 PM, Mark Linton wrote: > > I’ve used > > a. > > And > > u: i. 255 > > To create a list of characters (ASCII alphabet) > > > > Is there a way to change character-sets or code-pages or fonts to change > > the letters that are displayed when a J sentence is executed? > > > > Would it be a setting in the terminal or a verb in J? > > > > I’ve also noticed that |. has problems reversing two byte UTF-8 > > characters? What is the preferred method for reversing such characters > > in a string > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
