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Glyphs are the individual | Glyphs are the individual [[character]]s and symbols used in APL, primarily to represent [[primitive function]]s and [[primitive operator|operators]]. A glyph is distinct from the functionality it represents, and usually has a different name: for example, the [[dyadic]] function [[Take]] is represented with the glyph [[Up Arrow]]. | ||
Most of APL's glyphs cannot be represented in [[wikipedia:ASCII|ASCII]], now considered a "standard" or "basic" character set, but all of them are included in [[Unicode]], as one goal of Unicode was to unify existing character sets. In fact, [[Ken Iverson]] first began using [[Iverson notation|his notation]] before work on ASCII began, and [[APL\360]] was implemented before the modern ASCII standard was published in 1967. Prior to the widespread adoption of Unicode, many [[wikipedia:Digital encoding of APL symbols|special purpose code pages]] were used to represent APL symbols. APLs developed more recently, such as [[NARS2000]] and [[GNU APL]], use Unicode characters to represent glyphs, sometimes supporting several different options for a given glyph. Unicode also offers the possibility of introducing glyphs that could not have been produced on older APL systems: for example, both [[NARS2000]] and [[dzaima/APL]] use <syntaxhighlight lang=apl inline>√</syntaxhighlight> for the [[Square Root]] and [[Root]] functions. | Most of APL's glyphs cannot be represented in [[wikipedia:ASCII|ASCII]], now considered a "standard" or "basic" character set, but all of them are included in [[Unicode]], as one goal of Unicode was to unify existing character sets. In fact, [[Ken Iverson]] first began using [[Iverson notation|his notation]] before work on ASCII began, and [[APL\360]] was implemented before the modern ASCII standard was published in 1967. Prior to the widespread adoption of Unicode, many [[wikipedia:Digital encoding of APL symbols|special purpose code pages]] were used to represent APL symbols. APLs developed more recently, such as [[NARS2000]] and [[GNU APL]], use Unicode characters to represent glyphs, sometimes supporting several different options for a given glyph. Unicode also offers the possibility of introducing glyphs that could not have been produced on older APL systems: for example, both [[NARS2000]] and [[dzaima/APL]] use <syntaxhighlight lang=apl inline>√</syntaxhighlight> for the [[Square Root]] and [[Root]] functions. | ||