>¿J602a discriminate Spanish?
It is more accurate to say J discriminates (for) ASCII. Unicode is a
second class citizen.
Anyway, yours is a known issue. The good news it that it has no impact on
the function of your J programs. The problem is only in the display (of
boxed Unicode nouns in the session manager). The problem was documented
on the Wiki at some point, but I can't recall where. If you can find it,
I have vague recollections that a fix or workaround was outlined
(something to do with changing the font selected, maybe?).
But this is not the only trouble you may encounter with Unicode. For
example:
#'ó'
2
It'll take some research and experimenting to get this right:
# ucp 'ó'
1
datatype 'ó'
literal
datatype ucp 'ó'
unicode
This page will help: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/Unicode .
I've been struggling with this myself, recently (I'm trying to create a
quick ad-hoc report but am hampered because my data is in Unicode but I
don't know enough about that to diagnose the issue or normalize the data).
I wish a character was a character was a character.
-Dan
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