[Jprogramming] Umlauts in Character Arrays

[Julian Fondren]

It's possible with u: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/uco

    ex =: 'こんにちは'
    a.i.ex
227 129 147 227 130 147 227 129 171 227 129 161 227 129 175
    (#,#@ucp) ex
15 5
    1{ucp ex
ん
    3 u: ucp ex
12371 12435 12395 12385 12399
    datatype ucp ex
unicode

On 2021-01-30 01:44, Thomas Bulka wrote:
> Hello Forum,
> 
> I'm quite surprised, that I did not stumble over this issue earlier -
> however, recently I was working with some character arrays. Say, I
> have a character array which contains some German umlauts:
> 
> ca =: 'Hüte'
> 
> This displays fine in Jqt, but if I try to extract the 'ü' I get this 
> result:
> 
>    1 { ca
> �
> 
> I'd like to know, how one is supposed to handle umlauts or other
> non-ASCII characters in J - or if this is even possible.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Thomas
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