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diff --git a/misc/README b/misc/README index f36f6ae02..bef092f84 100644 --- a/misc/README +++ b/misc/README @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +// // $Id$ // // Miscellaneous files for developers: @@ -13,8 +14,9 @@ watch cursor movement, drawing artefacts, etc.. CAUTION: Do not 'cat' these files unless you know what you're doing. Especially the cp1252* files can contain control characters that may freeze -your screen (xterm etc.). +your screen (xterm etc.). +Detailed file description: The "native" encoded files contain 8-bit characters with binary values that can be seen at the top and left borders, resp. (add both). They should look @@ -32,6 +34,21 @@ capable systems. The files with names iso-8859-1_* contain only the ISO-8859-1 subset, i.e. the colums with character codes x'80' - x'9F' (U+0080 - U+009F) are empty. +Special Notes: + + U+0022 ("quotation mark") is doubled intentionally. This has been done for + better results in test/editor, because otherwise the rest of the file would + be shown in blue color (as a comment). + + U+0098 ("small tilde") may not display correctly on Windows systems. I saw + the same effect with other Windows editors as well. The following characters + may be display "shifted left" by one position. Seems to work correctly on + Linux (with UTF-8 encoding). + + There may currently be drawing artefacts when moving the cursor forwards + and/or backwards over some "special" characters. + + References: http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-1.TXT @@ -50,8 +67,8 @@ The following two files contain the full Windows Codepage 1252: The following two files contain only the ISO-8859-1 characters: - iso-8859-1.txt - iso-8859-1_utf-8.txt + iso-8859-1.txt native (Windows) encoding, suitable for FLTK 1.1 + iso-8859-1_utf-8.txt UTF-8 encoding, suitable for FLTK 1.3 and greater @@ -61,11 +78,12 @@ Other developer support files: doxystar.cxx Use this to reformat doxygen comments (test only). Compile with: g++ -o doxystar doxystar.cxx - + Usage: cat file | doxystar DO NOT USE this for current code development! - It is intended for testing of for future code reformatting ! + + It is intended for testing of future code reformatting ! // // End of $Id$. |