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<p>new</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>This page is intended to define a &#039;&#039;&#039;character&#039;&#039;&#039;, but to prevent creating a circular definition, e.g. &quot;a character is any single character you can type in,&quot; I will quote the definition from Wikipedia:<br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a &#039;&#039;&#039;character&#039;&#039;&#039; is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language. Examples of characters include letters, numerical digits, common punctuation marks (such as &quot;.&quot; or &quot;-&quot;), and whitespace. <br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> A character is specified either by typing it in or referencing it as a hexadecimal value. A character (except for a number) which to be used as data in an APL statement or to be assigned to a variable must be enclosed in quotes. <br /> <br /> Everything in APL is built from characters. [[Scalar]]s are created from numeric digits, optionally preceded by a sign and optionally followed by a decimal point. [[String]]s are built from multiple characters placed one after another. In NARS2000, characters are 16-bit and thus full Unicode support is available. Where conversions are needed for writing to files, characters may be truncated to 8-bit.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Data types]]</div>

Paul Robinson