update README to follow

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Vanessa Dannenberg 2018-08-16 13:20:26 -04:00
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@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ This mod uses the full ISO-8859-1 character set (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
* 153-156: explosion/splat
* 157-159: smileys
If a string is prefixed with character code 255, it is treated as UTF-8 and passed through a simple translation function. Only characters with codes greater than 159 are altered; normal ASCII text, color codes, control codes, and the above symbols are passed through unchanged. Note that in this mode, a character code over 159 is treated as the first byte of a two-byte symbol.
The panels also respond to these control messages:
the keywords "off", "colon" and "period" translate to a blank space, ":", and ".", respectively (they're leftover from the nixie tubes fork, but might be useful anyway)