ascii project news
3.30: 2024-05-27::
Back out mistaken correction of "Start of Heading."
Markup fix.
3.20: 2024-02-16::
Do two user requests for more informative handling of CLI flags.
3.19: 2024-02-07::
Accept 7-bit binary literals, with 0b prefix.
Accept names of POSIX character classes.
3.18: 2017-08-01::
Fix a packaging error, include NEWS in the tarball.
3.17: 2017-07-31::
Add -b option to generate a table with binary code-points.
3.16: 2017-07-18::
Add -a option to print in 4-column mode.
0-fill fix and octal code-point literals.
3.15: 2015-04-02::
Gitorious is doomed. Project must move and metadata change accordingly.
3.14: 2013-11-27::
Recognize \0 as ASCII NUL.
ascii.cgi deleted: the it relies on is archaic and nonconformant.
Markup improvements on the manual page.
3.13: 2013-11-20::
Tweak Makefile to obey $(PREFIX) convention (from MacPorts).
3.12: 2012-11-23::
Cygwin port fix.
3.11: 2011-03-15::
Recognize single decimal or hex digits.
Minor bug fixes and additional character names from Debian.
3.10: 2010-10-19::
License change to BSD. Polish code to modern fully-ANSI C.
3.9: 2010-10-13::
Fix some bugs in the name table.
3.8: 2005-03-03::
Well, that was embarrassing. Note to self: *test the correct version
next time*. Thanks to Marco Vanoni for the fix patch.
3.7: 2005-03-02::
Fix a comment bug in the nametable. Improve splashscreen generation.
3.6: 2004-01-11::
Fix brown-paper-bag bug in the Space entry.
3.5: 2003-12-28 2003
Source RPMs no longer require myversion to be defined.
3.4: 2003-12-24::
Fix error in ! entry in nametable file.
3.3: 2003-12-24::
Fix portability bug in Makefile sed script.
3.2: 2003-12-15::
Add knowledge of XML entity names.
First released by Eric S. Raymond , v1.0 March 1990
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v1.1 November 1990 -- revised `slang' from the 2.2 pronunciation guide
v1.2 March 1995 -- Fixed a core-dump bug
v1.3 October 1995 -- Fixed a bug that shows up only under ELF.
v2.0 December 1995 -- Interpret ISO-style code table escapes.
v2.1 August 1997 -- merge in changes by Ioannis Tambouras.
v2.2 November 1997 -- merge in more changes by Ioannis Tambouras.
v2.3 November 1997 -- incorporated Colin Plumb's splash-screen idea.
v2.4 December 1998 -- additions by Brian Ginsbach.
v2.5 December 1998 -- -s option by David N. Welton.
v2.6 June 1999 -- bug fixes by M.R. van Schouwen.
v2.7 October 1999 -- minor packaging and option changes.
v3.0 July 2000 -- added HTML/SGML entity names
v3.1 July 2002 -- documentation converted to XML
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