From 5ed4d1ef274681cdd8220ea8b17f31687e12a24e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vanessa Dannenberg Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:20:26 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] update README to follow --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 817aa49..3cbf23c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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)