                        ascii project news

3.32: 2026-03-01::
  Allow packagers to pass in hardening flags.
  Allow -d/-o/-x/-b to force the output radix.

3.31: 2026-02-07::
  ChatGPT 5.2 patches to hrden code against UB.
  Manual page is now spellchecked.

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 <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::
  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

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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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