[Xastir] New features

Sat Apr 23 15:25:42 GMT 2016

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 01:20:47PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:06:42AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <n7ipb at wetnet.net> flavor, containing:
> > A heads up for those testing the latest.
> > Bug #1,
> > Wherever a degree symbol is supposed to be printed it shows as multiple 
> > extended characters.  (station config, weather)
[...]
> 
> I found, however, that replacing all of those direct-entered special characters
> with "\xB0" returned function to normal. 
> 
> I can fix it in cvs that way if you'd like.  Or you can.

Committed and tested.  The degree symbol is now inserted into sprintf'd 
strings using the "\xB0" format specifier instead of the literal degree
symbol character.  This should prevent it from accidental replacement in
the future, since it's now four ASCII characters in the source, not a single 
Unicode/UTF-16 character.

I had to insert the UTF-8-encoded version of this character into comments
where the degree symbol appears.  I was unable to insert the raw <B0>
from the keyboard --- <compose-key>00 inserts the UTF-8 version, <C2><B0>.

None of my systems displayed as the degree symbol the three-byte thing that 
had replaced the former "<B0>" character.  Either <B0> or the UTF-8 
<C2><B0> representation both show up fine for me.

It'd be good to know how this character unintentionally got changed to 
<EF><BF><BD>.  The UTF-8/Unicode decoders I find call this a "replacement 
character" and not anything even close to a degree sign.

> The change from the <B0> character to the triple <EF><BF><BD> happened in
> every file where those characters appeared.  Are you running an editor that
> is "fixing" characters for you automatically?  A change like that shouldn't
> be happening unbidden.
> 
> > On Friday, April 22, 2016 7:55:05 PM PDT Ken Koster wrote:
> > > Yeah, I know.  Some will think the floodgates have opened but a couple of
> > > new features have been checked in.
> > > 
> > > Station Text selection now has a new option 'DropShadow'.   Why?  Because it
> > > kind of fell out of the text resizing work and I thought it looked good.
> > > Don't like it?  Don't select it.
> > > 
> > > Station - Filter Data:
> > > 	Select Aircraft Objects/Items
> > > 	Select Vessel Objects/Items
> > > They both default to on so we get the exact behavior we've always had.
> > > 
> > > File - Configure - Timing:
> > > 	Aircraft Ghost/Clear Time in minutes
> > > Being near a major airport and harbor as I am it doesn't take much use of
> > > Curt's ais and adb-s perl scripts to completely fill the screen with tracks
> > > of aircraft and ships.   I've had the screen look like a racetrack with all
> > > the planes taking off and landing at SeaTac over a one hour period.  Even
> > > the lowest value of the Station Clear Time is too long so I took advantage
> > > of the existing space to add another slider.  It selects the time at which
> > > aircraft symbols will ghost so the text doesn't clutter the screen.   It
> > > also affects the time at which the ghosted symbols and tracks will be
> > > cleared.  Set the Aircraft ghost time to 5 minutes and the clear time will
> > > be 25 minutes (Aircraft Ghost Time * 5).
> > > - Note:   This slider does not effect the ghost/clear times of anything
> > > other than the aircraft symbols.   Set it to 0 and it doesn't even do that.
> > >  The default is 0 so it doesn't affect what everyone is used to.
> > > 
> > > Plus there were a couple of tweaks to the scripts by Curt to handle some
> > > corner case error conditions and I added decoding of the AIS type 4 and 21
> > > messages to ais.pl
> > > 
> > > Check it out,  have fun,  any bugs etc....   You know the drill.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ken - N7IPB
> > Email: n7ipb at wetnet.net
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