Yep, I hear you Henry,
I wanted to be sure you were aware of the differences. The concern that I have
is that when the UTF-8 is broken up that the display be something that is a bit
more understandable for the user. I was playing around with it recently in
trying to develop a web based solution, which is a lot easier because there is
no constraint of a fixed font size. Here is a video of what I ended up with
https://youtu.be/eN9H-rMk1No and the key verb in the process was this one that
breaks a list of point numbers into appropriate chunks to generate characters.
utf_vts_
3 : 0"1
if. y-:'' do. return. end.
try. ((utf@:((1<.#)}.]));~((3 u: ":)@: (7 u: a.{~ (1<.#) {. ]))) y
catch. try. ((utf@:((2<.#)}.]));~((3 u: ":)@: (7 u: a.{~ (2<.#) {. ]))) y
catch. try. ((utf@:((3<.#)}.]));~((3 u: ":)@: (7 u: a.{~ (3<.#) {. ]))) y
catch. ({. ; utf@}.) y
end.
end.
end.
)
Thanks for all of your work on this, handling the variable widths and uneven
box boundaries within your constraints seems quite a challenge. By the way, the
most recent version of the beta that I could download was 7 on the Darwin
platform, so I have not had a chance to try out the solution to the CJK
character widths.
Cheers, bob
> On Jul 5, 2016, at 2:52 AM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This 3 4 $ 'a', 'ఝ', 'b'
> is a strange beast: The string requires 5 bytes, so you have chopped 3 copies
> of it into 3 4-byte sections. ": formats each line separately; the second
> and third lines contain partial UTF-8 sequences which are displayed as
> unknown. I think it's right; at least it's reasonable (formatting of invalid
> UTF-8 is undefined).
>
> Playing with UTF-8 is hard; easier to convert to unicodes first, using u: .
>
> Henry Rich
>
>
>
>
> On 7/5/2016 12:21 AM, robert therriault wrote:
>> JVERSION
>> Engine: j804/j64/darwin
>> Release: commercial/2015-12-21 18:06:25
>> Library: 8.04.15
>> Qt IDE: 1.4.10/5.4.2
>> Platform: Darwin 64
>> Installer: J804 install
>> InstallPath: /applications/j64-804
>> Contact: www.jsoftware.com
>>
>> 3 4 $ 'a', 'ఝ', 'b'
>> aఝ
>> ba��
>> �ba�
>>
>> JVERSION
>> Engine: j805/j64/darwin
>> Beta-7: commercial/2016-06-22T14:29:03
>> Library: 8.04.15
>> Qt IDE: 1.4.9/5.4.2
>> Platform: Darwin 64
>> Installer: J804 install
>> InstallPath: /users/bobtherriault/j64-804
>> Contact: www.jsoftware.com
>>
>> 3 4 $ 'a', 'ఝ', 'b'
>> aఝ
>> baà°
>> baà
>>
>> I can't seem to download the newest beta, but this behaviour in the previous
>> one does not seem correct and may be the same in the newest version (I don't
>> expect that the CJK changes would affect this behaviour). Introducing new
>> characters instead of the � to show non-displayable characters would be
>> confusing to the user, and the third line containing 3 characters instead of
>> the expected 4 seems incorrect.
>>
>> Cheers, bob
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