Marshall
Created page with ":''This page is about the data type. For the symbols used to write APL code, see Glyph.'' A '''character''' is a scalar array representing a unit of text. In current APLs this generally means a Unicode wikipedia:code point, while historically various custom character sets were used. These accomodated typical text as well as APL code, usually with one byte per character. Characters and numbers are the two basic..."