The APL Character Set for Workspace Interchange, registered for use with
ISO/IEC 2022 as ISO-IR-68,
is a character set developed by the APL Working Group of the
Canadian Standards Association.
calls it Code page 371.
It is one of
several APL code pages used for the
syntax and symbols used by the
APL programming language
APL (named after the book ''A Programming Language'') is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson. Its central datatype is the multidimensional array. It uses a large range of special graphic symbols to represent mos ...
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Character set
Composite characters
The encoding intends that certain of the above characters should be able to be
represented at the same character position to produce additional symbols required for APL as composite characters, such as the following:
References
{{APL programming language
Character sets
APL programming language family