ascii project news
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 <isindex> 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 <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>, v1.0 March 1990

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