The number of people has been steadily increasing who read our source
code with an editor that thinks tab stops are 4 spaces apart, as
opposed to the traditional tty-derived 8 that the PuTTY code expects.
So I've been wondering for ages about just fixing it, and switching to
a spaces-only policy throughout the code. And I recently found out
about 'git blame -w', which should make this change not too disruptive
for the purposes of source-control archaeology; so perhaps now is the
time.
While I'm at it, I've also taken the opportunity to remove all the
trailing spaces from source lines (on the basis that git dislikes
them, and is the only thing that seems to have a strong opinion one
way or the other).
Apologies to anyone downstream of this code who has complicated patch
sets to rebase past this change. I don't intend it to be needed again.
where two SBCS code points mapped to a single Unicode point.
Changed so that by default it favours the lower SBCS code point.
On ixion, this highlighted ambiguities in CS_MAC_THAI, CS_MAC_SYMBOL, and
CS_VISCII. Guessed at a preference for the first two and added "sortpriority"
directives. (No idea about VISCII.)
[originally from svn r6641]
[this svn revision also touched charset,filter,halibut,timber]
CS_ISO8859_1_X11: where two SBCS positions map to the same Unicode
code point, we now have a `sortpriority' hint which can tell
sbcsgen.pl which one it should preferentially generate when
converting back to SBCS.
[originally from svn r2427]
does UTF-8 copy and paste (falling back to normal strings if
necessary), it understands X font encodings and translates things
accordingly so that if you have a Unicode font you can ask for
virtually any single-byte encoding and get it (Mac-Roman pterm,
anyone?), and so on. There's work left to be done (wide fonts for
CJK spring to mind), but I reckon this is a pretty good start.
[originally from svn r2395]