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mangle_types

Description

Mangle types are used by:

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All characters are grouped into one of 9 “types”:

Type number Description ASCII characters
0 Normal chars 32-127, 160-255
1 High bit control chars 128-159
2 Escape char ^[
3 Color char ^C
4 Highlight toggle ^B ^E ^F ^O ^V ^_
5 Unsafe char ^M (\r)
6 Control char ^@ ^A ^D ^H ^K ^L ^N ^P ^Q ^R ^T ^U ^W ^X ^Y ^Z ^\ ^] ^^
7 Beep ^G
8 Tab ^I
9 Non-destructive Space ^S

There are the 12 following mangle types:

ESCAPE NORMALIZE COLOR REVERSE
UNDERLINE BOLD BLINK ND_SPACE
ALT_CHAR ALL_OFF UNPRINTABLE OTHER

The mangle types transform the characters, according to this table:

A Character or sequence converted into an attribute
M Character mangled (ie, ^A into ^VA^V)
S Character stripped, sequence (if any) NOT stripped
X Character stripped, sequence (if any) also stripped
T Transformed into other (safe) chars
- No transformation
Mangle type 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
(default) - - - - A - - T T T
NORMALIZE - - A A - X M - - -
ESCAPE - - S - - - - - - -
COLOR - - - X - - - - - -
(The rest of them) - - - - X - - - - -
UNPRINTABLE - X S S X X X X - -
OTHER X - - - - - - - X X
(/SET ALLOW_C1) - X - - - - - - - -

There are only *three* ambiguous cases:

  • Type 2:
    ESCAPE has first priority, then NORMALIZE, and finally UNPRINTABLE
  • Type 3:
    UNPRINTABLE has first priority, then NORMALIZE, and COLOR. You need to use both NORMALIZE and COLOR to remove color changes in escape sequences
  • Type 6:
    UNPRINTABLE has first priority over NORMALIZE.
mangle_types.txt · Last modified: 2010/10/06 23:17 by 127.0.0.1