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Re:APL Interpreter – An implementation of APL, written in Ha... by gitonthescene on Friday June 06, 2025 @06:03AM (#44199329)
It wasn’t Unicode but it wasn’t ASCII either. I think here unicode is probably shorthand for not ASCII.
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Re:APL Interpreter – An implementation of APL, written in Ha... by WorldMaker on Friday June 06, 2025 @01:29PM (#44203142)
Unicode inherited most of APL's encoding sets from EBCDIC code pages. Almost no one would choose to work in EBCDIC today, so it is practical to just say Unicode as the last encoding left standing (for everyone not working on legacy APL code on [emulated] IBM mainframe hardware).
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