ISO-IR-68

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APL Character Set for Workspace Interchange
Alias(es)IBM-371, ISO-IR-68
Language(s) APL syntax and symbols
Created by Canadian Standards Association APL Working Group
Classification7-bit modified ASCII with mandatory BS composition

The APL Character Set for Workspace Interchange, registered for use with ISO/IEC 2022 as ISO-IR-68, [1] is a character set developed by the APL Working Group of the Canadian Standards Association. [2] IBM calls it Code page 371. [3] It is one of several APL code pages used for the syntax and symbols used by the APL programming language. [2]

Contents

Character set

ISO IR-68 [1]
0123456789ABCDEF
0x NUL SOH STX ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL   BS    HT    LF    VT    FF    CR    SO    SI   
1x DLE DC1 DC2 DC3 DC4 NAK SYN ETB CAN   EM   SUB ESC   FS    GS    RS    US  
2x  SP   ¨ ) < = > ] ÷ , + . /
3x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ( [ ; × : \
4x ¯ _ '
5x ? -
6x A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
7x P Q R S T U V W X Y Z { } $ DEL

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: [2]

Combined charactersComposite character(s) Unicode
÷ and U+2339APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL QUAD DIVIDE
_ and ∆U+2359APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL DELTA UNDERBAR
_ and A to ZA to Z
∘ and ⊥U+234EAPL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL DOWN TACK JOT
∘ and ∩U+235DAPL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL UP SHOE JOT
∘ and ⊤U+2355APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL UP TACK JOT
' and .!U+0021EXCLAMATION MARK
' and ⎕U+235EAPL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL QUOTE QUAD
| and ∇U+234BAPL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL DEL STILE
| and ∆U+2352APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL DELTA STILE
○ and \U+2349APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL CIRCLE BACKSLASH
○ and |U+233DAPL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL CIRCLE STILE
○ and ⋆U+235FAPL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL CIRCLE STAR
○ and -U+2296CIRCLED MINUS
and ∧U+2372APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL UP CARET TILDE
and ∨U+2371APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL DOWN CARET TILDE
and ∇U+236BAPL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL DEL TILDE
- and /U+233FAPL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL SLASH BAR
- and \U+2340APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL BACKSLASH BAR

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References

  1. 1 2 Cowan, John (2020-07-17). "ISO-IR-68 to Unicode". Unicode.org. Unicode, Inc . Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  2. 1 2 3 Standards Council of Canada (1983-06-01). APL Character Set for Workspace Interchange (PDF). ITSCJ/IPSJ. ISO-IR-68.
  3. "Code Page 00371" (PDF). IBM. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-08.