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| One of the joys of APL is the way that the expanded character set gives us brevity and clarity of expression. A downside is that when we need to squeeze APL through Mail and News applications which have their roots in 7-bit ASCII what the sender sends isn't always the same as the receiver receives. It doesn't have to be this way and the intention of this page is to set out working configurations for as many mail/news clients as possible. | One of the joys of APL is the way that the expanded character set gives us brevity and clarity of expression. A downside is that when we need to squeeze APL through Mail and News applications which have their roots in 7-bit ASCII what the sender sends isn't always the same as the receiver receives - at some stage the code collapses into a heap of question marks or becomes illegible. It doesn't have to be this way and the intention of this page is to set out working configurations for as many mail/news clients as possible. |
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The recipes below have been partly generated by trial-and-error; please correct, amend and extend as you see fit... == Platforms == === Windows === ==== Mail Clients ==== ===== Thunderbird ===== Fonts and Encodings: * Proportional (Sans-serif) * Serif (Times New Roman) * Sans-serif (Arial) * Monospace (Lucida Console) Outgoing Mail - Unicode (UTF-8) Incoming Mail - Unicode (UTF-8) Using the above settings it was possible to copy/paste from a Dyalog 12 (Unicode) session into a mail message. send it, receive it and copy/paste back into a Dyalog 12 (Unicode) session. APL characters were legible at all stages - default font was used (no attempt to override). ==== NewsReaders ==== ===== XNews ===== So far as I can tell XNews(5.04.25) can't be configured to either send or receive as Unicode === Mac === ==== Mail Clients ==== ==== NewsReaders ==== === Linux === ==== Mail Clients ==== ==== NewsReaders ==== |
Configuring Mail and News Readers
One of the joys of APL is the way that the expanded character set gives us brevity and clarity of expression. A downside is that when we need to squeeze APL through Mail and News applications which have their roots in 7-bit ASCII what the sender sends isn't always the same as the receiver receives - at some stage the code collapses into a heap of question marks or becomes illegible. It doesn't have to be this way and the intention of this page is to set out working configurations for as many mail/news clients as possible.
Goal
What we want to achieve is a three-step exchange of APL code:
APL code in a workspace
is copy/pasted into a mail message or news posting body
Sent by Person A
may be forwarded and/or replied to (possibly more than once)
Received by Person B
is copy/pasted into a workspace
APL code in a workspace
The recipes below have been partly generated by trial-and-error; please correct, amend and extend as you see fit...
Platforms
Windows
Mail Clients
Thunderbird
Fonts and Encodings:
- Proportional (Sans-serif)
- Serif (Times New Roman)
- Sans-serif (Arial)
- Monospace (Lucida Console)
Outgoing Mail - Unicode (UTF-8) Incoming Mail - Unicode (UTF-8)
Using the above settings it was possible to copy/paste from a Dyalog 12 (Unicode) session into a mail message. send it, receive it and copy/paste back into a Dyalog 12 (Unicode) session. APL characters were legible at all stages - default font was used (no attempt to override).
NewsReaders
XNews
So far as I can tell XNews(5.04.25) can't be configured to either send or receive as Unicode
Mac
Mail Clients
NewsReaders
Linux
Mail Clients