APL - Re: Unicode Support for APL (was GPL'd APEX APL compiler available

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Re: Unicode Support for APL (was GPL'd APEX APL compiler available

phil chastney

2007-10-26, 9:59 pm

folic wrote:
> If you see []av in Dyalog and APLX as ordinal positions 0 ... 255,
> what are the unicode, say UTF-8, values for each position?
>
it's vendor specific

Unicode allocates a 32-bit value to each character the world had ever
known (this is a work-in-progress)

UTF = Unicode Transformation Format
UTF-8 is one way of mapping these 32-bit quantities on to an 8-bit data
stream -- this makes it handy for data transmission, but characters are
always identified by using their 16-bit or 32-bit Unicode values

there comes a point where the concept of []av is entirely superfluous,
but we're not there yet

HTH and all the best . . . /phil

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