Yes, needs to handle this situation, the value of the leading byte of a multi-byte utf8 will tell its length whether 2,3 or 4 bytes.
On Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 8:39 AM Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > And if there's several adjacent characters with representation in that > range? > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > On Saturday, September 14, 2019, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 <henryhr...@gmail.com> 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
