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| In theory, you should see APL characters even with "Arial". Well, almost. Truth is that the version of "Arial" Windows is coming with is not a Unicode font. There is a font "Arial Unicode MS" available on many machines, but this font comes with some versions of Microsoft Office and some versions of the Microsoft Publisher. This font is '''not''' free anyway. | <<TableOfContents>> In theory, you should see APL characters even with "Arial". Well, almost. Truth is that the version of "Arial" Windows is coming with is not a full Unicode font. There is a font "Arial Unicode MS" available on many machines, but this font comes with some versions of Microsoft Office and some versions of the Microsoft Publisher. This font is '''not''' free anyway. |
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| === APLX Upright === | === The "APLX Upright" Font === |
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| === APL385 Unicode === | === The "APL385 Unicode" Font === |
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| If you have installed any version of Dyalog APL, you will have this font installed already. | If you have installed Dyalog APL version 11 or later, you will have this font installed already. |
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| === Other APL fonts === | === Other APL fonts won't work === |
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| If you use Internet Explorer, make sure that it is version 7 or better. Everything else is a nightmare. Even IE7 is known to cause problems on some ordinary systems, and nobody can explain why, or fix the problem. | If you use Internet Explorer, make sure that it is version 7 or better. Everything else is a nightmare. IE7 works just fine on about 99% of the boxes. On some machines, however, it does not work. So far nobody can explain why. == "It work's with the APL wiki, but not elsewhere" == The APL wiki explicitly tells a browser to use one of the true APL Unicode fonts mentioned above. Therefore, if one of these fonts is available on your machine, it will work. For displaying APL chars in emails and News Readers, things are a bit more complex. See ConfiguringMailAndNewsReaders for details. |
APL Characters
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In theory, you should see APL characters even with "Arial". Well, almost. Truth is that the version of "Arial" Windows is coming with is not a full Unicode font. There is a font "Arial Unicode MS" available on many machines, but this font comes with some versions of Microsoft Office and some versions of the Microsoft Publisher. This font is not free anyway.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Furthermore, experience shows that some fonts are buggy: they contain most APL characters but not all.
So to be sure that you can see APL characters we suggest to install one of these fonts:
The "APLX Upright" Font
If you have installed a desktop version of APLX (full or evaluation copy), you will have this font installed already.
The font can be downloaded from:
http://www.microapl.co.uk/download/aplx_unicode.ttf
The "APL385 Unicode" Font
If you have installed Dyalog APL version 11 or later, you will have this font installed already.
The font can be downloaded from:
http://www.dyalog.com/download/unicode/apl385.ttf
Other APL fonts won't work
Note that fonts like "Dyalog Std", "Dyalog Alt", "Causeway" and many others are not Unicode fonts. Therefore, the APL wiki does not even try to use them: they won't work!
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. IE7 works just fine on about 99% of the boxes. On some machines, however, it does not work. So far nobody can explain why.
"It work's with the APL wiki, but not elsewhere"
The APL wiki explicitly tells a browser to use one of the true APL Unicode fonts mentioned above. Therefore, if one of these fonts is available on your machine, it will work.
For displaying APL chars in emails and News Readers, things are a bit more complex. See ConfiguringMailAndNewsReaders for details.