September Morn Update

Task/Character-codes/Neko/character-codes-1.neko

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+// An 'a' and a 'b'
+var s = "a";
+var c = 98;
+var h = " ";
+
+$print("Character code for 'a': ", $sget(s, 0), "\n");
+
+$sset(h, 0, c);
+$print("Character code ", c,  ": ", h, "\n");

Task/Character-codes/Neko/character-codes-2.neko

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+// While Neko also includes some UTF-8 operations,
+//  native strings are just arrays of bytes
+var us = "¥·£·€·$·¢·₡·₢·₣·₤·₥·₦·₧·₨·₩·₪·₫·₭·₮·₯·₹";
+
+// load some Std lib primitives
+utfGet = $loader.loadprim("std@utf8_get", 2);
+utfSub = $loader.loadprim("std@utf8_sub", 3);
+utfAlloc = $loader.loadprim("std@utf8_buf_alloc", 1);
+utfAdd = $loader.loadprim("std@utf8_buf_add", 2);
+utfContent = $loader.loadprim("std@utf8_buf_content", 1);
+
+// Pull out the Euro currency symbol from the UTF-8 currency sampler
+var uc = utfGet(us, 4);
+$print("UFT-8 code for '", utfSub(us, 4, 1), "': ", uc, "\n");
+
+// Build a UTF-8 buffer
+var buf = utfAlloc(4);
+
+// Add a Pound Sterling symbol
+uc = 8356;
+utfAdd(buf, uc);
+$print("UTF-8 code ", uc, ": ", utfContent(buf), "\n");