Interesting that VISTA handles unicode characters larger than double byte.

   240 169 160 143 97{a.
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:26 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:

> what is combining character? how is that related to 32-bit unicode?
> may be just  ,|._2]\'asdf' to reverse in pairs.
>
> Птн, 22 Апр 2011, Raul Miller писал(а):
> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Istvan Kadar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >  Hi,
> > >
> > > J602: in Arial Unicode MS
> > >
> > >          $7&u:'as⃝df̅'
> > > 6
> > >          |.7&u:'as⃝df̅'
> > > ̅fd⃝sa
> >
> > Yes, the problem is:
> >
> >    3 u: 7 u: 'as⃝df̅'        NB. original string
> > 97 115 8413 100 102 773
> >    3 u: |. 7 u: 'as⃝df̅'        NB. J's result
> > 773 102 100 8413 115 97
> >    3 u: 7 u: 'f̅ds⃝a'        NB. desired result
> > 102 773 100 115 8413 97
> >    3 u: 7 u: '"̅fd⃝sa'        NB. incorrect result (except I left in
> > the double quote)
> > 34 773 102 100 8413 115 97
> >
> > J is producing the sequence 773 102 when the desired result has the
> > sequence 102 773 -- I believe that this is because 16 bits are not
> > enough to represent a unicode character, here.
> >
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