Could someone give me an example of how you'd configure a unicode environment to get APL characters on your keyboard and have them display properly? I expect that you could do it under emacs, but is that the only possibility? RS rolled his own at An APL playstation - need one Unicoded APL font, and Tk of course...[There are many versions of J, the early versions are freely distributable in source, http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~ljdickey/#apl-j is a good resource. More recent versions are freely available only in binary form under a non-commercial license, http://www.jsoftware.com is the resource here. One thing which distinguishes J from other languages in the APL family is that Ken Iverson -- the guy who invented APL (to make it possible to document the IBM 360 architecture, back in the early 1960s) -- is also the architect behind J.][Also of possible interest is a writeup on A [1] -- the implementation of A was important in getting J off the ground. Unfortunately, that page is a bit hard to read, because it expects that you have a special font installed with implied special character mappings -- they should have used gif images to represent those characters. Also, it's a bit old -- while that page claims that A+ "is is quite definitely not for sale", A+ is now distributed under the terms of the GPL .]See also Tacit programming for some J code examples, and how to replay them in Tcl.[Refer to JTcl.]