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trans V1.30 2001-02-22

History - how things developed

2001-02-22: V1.30 KK

• updated iso1046 file using Unicode 3.0.1 data
• dropped support (makefiles, bat-files) for MS-DOS compilers Borland C++ and Microsoft C
• added option "-u" to trans.c (contribution from Alex Kapranoff)
• modified transhtm so it shows decimal ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 code point number as well and does not show control codes anymore
• converted docs from plain text format to HTML
• removed wingreek and cyrilbas cedf
• removed email addresses of contributors (docs are in HTML now and I don't want them to receive junk email because email web crawlers may find them)

1997-07-27: V1.20 KK

• changed cedf format
• deleted comment string
• added #include command
• removed all *.net variants since nobody seemed to get the point
• removed all NCxx code points (anywhere)
• renamed cedf/nextstep.enc to cedf/nextstep
• corrected bug in iso8859.7, code point B7
• corrected bug in iso8859.8, code point AF
• corrected bug in cp737, code points F4, F5, F9, FA
• corrected bug in cp855, code point FD
• corrected bug in cp857, code points E7, F2
• corrected bug in cp861, code points 97, 98
• corrected bug in cp864, added ISOLATED FORM where needed
• corrected bug in cp869, code point 88
• corrected bug in cp125*, code points 85, 88, 95, 98
• added cp1257 and cp1258
• added cp775 and cp874

1997-06-14: V1.13 KK

• split transce8 function LoadTable () into separate file loadtab.*
• renamed "tables" directory to "cedf"
• created program transhtm
• corrected code point "B2" in "koi8-r.net"
• updated file "iso10646", less characters now, Unicode 2.0
• moved file "iso10646" to "cedf" directory
• corrected "LIGATURE AE" to "LETTER AE" in these files:
  
  adobeiso atarist cp857 ebc1047.net iso8859.4
  adobestd cp1252 cp857.net hp48 iso8859.9
  applecro cp1252.net cp861 hproman8 nextstep.enc
  appleice cp1254 cp865 hproman8.net nextstep.net
  applerom cp437 decmcs iso646.no tex-dcr.in
  applerom.net cp850 ebc037 iso8859.1 tex-dcr.out
  appletur cp850.net ebc1047 iso8859.10

1997-05-01: V1.12 KK

• corrected bug in koi8-r, code points 14, 15
• corrected bug in koi8-r.net, code point 15
• corrected bug in decmcs, code points DD, FD
• added cp895 from Vladimir Michl

1996-06-01: V1.11 KK

• corrected bug in cp1250, code point B9
• corrected bug in cp1256, code points AB, BB
• corrected bug in appletur, code point F5
• corrected bug in applerum, code point BE
• corrected bug in cp855, code points 94, 95
• added last two code points in atarist
• enhanced checkiso program to find duplicates (dead simple)
• changed "-w" option to "-u" thus creating Unicode A tables

1995-07-01: V1.10 KK

• added Apple Macintosh Encodings from Tom Shaw
• bugfixes on the gcc Makefile, updates to the MS-DOS makefiles as well
• package now maintained on a Linux system
• bugfixes/minor changes in all programmes
• added program transce8 which make use of the newly added files in the newly created directory "xlt".
• email address change (please use the new one, only)
• fixed bugs in a few man pages
• updated iso10646 file with new version from Unicode (Jan 4 1995)

1994-03-31: V1.00 KK

• added Microsoft Windows Encodings: Symbol, Wingdings, MS LineDraw
• corrected MS-DOS Codepages code points E4, EA, ED and EE for the following Codepages: 437, 860, 861, 862, 863 and 865. Also corrected the same "bug" for the file "atarist".
• finally added ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 support, included new data structure
• dropped conversion of "-" and "_" to " " in ReadCodeTable ()
• modified file decmcs to contain NCxx codes rather than ctrl codes

1994-03-04: V0.97 KK

The file format looks pretty stable, but the internal data structure used in ReadCodeTable () might change.

quite a few corrections due to the fact I now had chance to check ISO/IEC 10646-1 and started to compare it with the names used here and that I wrote a few programs to crosscheck the character names.

• corrected "applerom.net" (first line was missing)
• corrected "* SINGLE QUOTATION" to "* SINGLE QUOTATION MARK"
• corrected "TONOS AND DIALYTIKA" to "DIALYTIKA AND TONOS"
• added "NC32".."NC37" to "iso8859.3" for network versions
• added "NC32".."NC37" to "iso8859.7" for network versions
• added a few network description files
• added "wingreek" font encoding description
• added check.bat and check.sh

1994-01-18: V0.96 KK

• added command switches -c, -b and -n
• added binary file output
• added tex-dcr.in and tex-dcr.out Encoding Descriptions
• merged "inittab.c", "freetab.c", "strcrpl.c", "strdeltw.c" and "readtab.c" to "readtab.c"
• merged "inittran.c", "dumptran.c", "dumpprog.c" and "comptran.c" to "comptran.c"
• created more useful makefiles for
  
  makefile.bcc Borland C++
  makefile.msc Microsoft C
  makefile.gcc GNU gcc
• corrected all "LATIN * LETTER AE" to "LATIN * LIGATURE AE" without increasing version numbers, because this really is/was an internal "bug".

1993-12-22: V0.95 KK

• added EBCDIC Codepage 875 (Greek)
• corrected Greek Encoding Descriptions (GREEK DIALYTIKA TONOS)
• corrected some bugs in Arabic IBM Codepage 864 (not all :( )
• minor modifications on trans.h etc.
• split huge transtab.c file into many small files to ease maintainability (first step)
• corrected "bug" in ReadCodeTable () in transtab.c
• renamed cpgds to cp737 (Greek defacto standard)

1993-11-14: V0.94 KK

• added 12 national variants of ISO 646 for dino support reasons
• cosmetic corrections in transtab and trans

1993-10-15: V0.93 KK

• corrected koi-8 to koi8-r (RFC-1489)
• updated transtab program (prepared for future extensions)
• added (obsolete) IBM Codepages 851, 853, 855 and 861
• quite a few corrections to many tables (mostly typos)

1993-09-17: V0.92 KK

• added HP48 from Alexander Lehmann, cosmetic changes
• added Codepage 864 (Arabic), file cp864

1993-07-31: V0.91 KK

• added Codepage 862 (Israel), file cp862

1993-07-24: V0.90 KK

• corrected typing errors in Greek, Hebrew and Arabic names
• corrected typing error in almost all files: REVERSE SOLIDUS and not: REVERS SOLIDUS
• corrected two typing errors in ISO 8859-3
• renamed rfc-1345 to iso10646
• created sgml2k program

1993-06-01: V0.83 KK

• corrected ISO names in cp1251, cp866 and iso8859.5
• added Cyrillic Basic TT Font for Microsoft Windows 3.1
• added Adobe Symbol Encoding Vector

1993-05-25: V0.82 KK

• added Microsoft Windows Codepages 1250-1256
• added IBM Codepage 857 (Multilingual Latin 5)
• added Apple Macintosh Greek
• added Apple ][ Greek extended for Macintosh
• dropped support for K&R C (now ANSI-C, only)

1993-05-18: V0.81 KK

• added "#! /bin/sh" to shell scripts in ./transxxx/bin (hint from Alexander Lehmann)

1993-05-10: V0.80 KK

• first "official" release

Please send me feedback and character encoding description files like the ones supplied in the ./trans130/cedf/ directory.