Re: Test of Unicode APL characters with Mozilla

"FDA" <armingaud@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Bob Cain wrote:
>
> >>> Which symbol in the given text would that be? Most seem to
display
> >>> (using Win Thunderbird) as a single question mark but a couple are
> >>
> >> doubled.
> >>
> >> it's in parentheses, and follows the word "execute" in plaintext
> >
> >
> > It's a single question mark enclosed in parens. Does that mean that
it
> > will display APL if I get a font or something?
>
> I am in trouble with that question.
>
> On my Windows Mozilla, the display is perfect (though very slightly
> different in shape of the "execute" I am accustomed to in APL2). But I
> have APL2 installed too.
>
> However, on my Linux OpenSuSE 10.0 (free) it displays perfectly too,
> though I never installed APL2 there ! But I do not know whether SuSE
> automatically installs the Windows partition fonts (Mandriva does) or
> not. As far as I remember (I am in XP presently) those APL glyphs
belong
> to a givent subset of Unicode *Arial* (!). I cannot check that right
now
> because I am presently under XP.

Unicode is a very large set

the characters representable using Arial Unicode are a subset of Unicode

the characters necessary to represent (all flavours of) APL are a subset
of those in the Arial Unicode font

you can check this on XP -- use Charmap, if you don't have a decent
font viwer -- the ranges principally of interest commence with U+2200
(mathematical operators) and U+2300 (miscellaneous technical)

if you don't like the look of a particular symbol, then switch to
another font, or edit the existing font (licence terms permitting)

regards . . . /phil

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