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Re: Documentation for utf8decode and ushow (nee unicodeshow)

Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Date 2022-03-10 22:26 -0800
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Subject Re: Documentation for utf8decode and ushow (nee unicodeshow)
From luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com>

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On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 6:55:09 AM UTC-6, David Newall wrote:
> Hello All, 
> 
> I've almost finished my UTF-8 decode and Unicode show work. Significant 
> changes are: 
> 
> 1. unicodeshow is now ushow. The names all got a bit long. 
> 2. The decoder has been rewritten based on code by Thompson and Pike in 
> Plan 9. They wrote an incredibly clever test for overlong sequences. 
> 3. Documentation. Yes, really! 
> https://davidnewall.com/software/utf8show/PostScript%20UTF8%20Extension%20Reference.pdf 
> 
> Have I left anything out? 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> David

Beautiful! 

Found just a few typos: 
p. 3 operator summary: kushow omits map argument
p.6 "it's CharProcs dictionary" errant apostrophe

possible improvement: Maybe add example code for the ushow details.
Sure, it's everywhere else. And you see it soon enough by scrolling either
up or down to the nearest example. But if you bee-line to the simple case,
you don't get the full view/narrow scope base case model all in a nutshell,
you know? Does that make sense? 

possible improvement: show off more fancy characters in the examples?
This is friggin' brilliant. Crow it to the murder!

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Documentation for utf8decode and ushow (nee unicodeshow) David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-03-06 23:54 +1100
  Re: Documentation for utf8decode and ushow (nee unicodeshow) luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2022-03-10 22:26 -0800
  Re: Documentation for utf8decode and ushow (nee unicodeshow) Anthk <anthk@disroot.org> - 2022-12-13 20:51 +0000
    Re: Documentation for utf8decode and ushow (nee unicodeshow) David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-12-29 17:49 +1100
  Re: Documentation for utf8decode and ushow (nee unicodeshow) rlhamil@smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton) - 2022-12-29 11:46 +0000

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