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| You should see APL characters with any ordinary font: nowadays any system font should contain those characters. It might not look nice, but it should work. | |
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| However, experience tells us that you get by far the best results with '''APL385 Unicode''' font. [:www.dyalog.com/download/unicode/apl385.ttf:Download the font] | In theory, you should see APL characters with any ordinary font: nowadays any system font should contain those characters. It might not look nice, but it should work. |
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| == First steps == | In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Experience shows that some fonts are buggy: they contain most APL characters but not all. |
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| Read [:FrontPage/AboutTheWiki:About], HelpOnEditing and [:SpecialCharacters:displaying APL characters and editing APL code] before you start. Then practise on the [:aplteam2.com/testwiki/:test wiki]. | However, for best results we suggest to install the '''APL385 Unicode''' font anyway. Download here: http://www.dyalog.com/download/unicode/apl385.ttf This font does not only have '''all''' APL characters, it also looks nice. |
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| Every modern Browser should be fine. I suggest the latest Firefox for best results. |
APL Characters
In theory, you should see APL characters with any ordinary font: nowadays any system font should contain those characters. It might not look nice, but it should work.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Experience shows that some fonts are buggy: they contain most APL characters but not all.
However, for best results we suggest to install the APL385 Unicode font anyway. Download here: http://www.dyalog.com/download/unicode/apl385.ttf This font does not only have all APL characters, it also looks nice.
Browsers
Every modern Browser should be fine. I suggest the latest Firefox for best results.
If you use Internet Explorer, make sure that it is version 7 or better. Everything else is a nightmare.