[Jprogramming] Changing character-set and font and reversing UTF 8 strings

[Raul Miller]

And if there's several adjacent characters with representation in that
range?

Thanks,

-- 
Raul

On Saturday, September 14, 2019, bill lam <bbill.lam at 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 <henryhrich at 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
> >
> >
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