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gitonthescene | 9 months ago

It wasn’t Unicode but it wasn’t ASCII either. I think here unicode is probably shorthand for not ASCII.

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WorldMaker|8 months ago

Unicode inherited most of APL's encoding sets from EBCDIC code pages. Almost no one would choose to work in EBCDIC today, so it is practical to just say Unicode as the last encoding left standing (for everyone not working on legacy APL code on [emulated] IBM mainframe hardware).