Collation Software Change Log

Here we answer the burning question “Have there been any interesting changes lately?”

To check the version number of your copy of the collation software, open up collate.pl in a text editor and look for a line near the top of the file such as the following for version 1.27.

# $Id: collate.pl,v 1.27 2009/04/14 05:55:46 kirk Exp kirk $

Version 1.28, April 2015

Fix a problem in Unicode mode where the script refused to recognize the contents of any input file. Noticed first in OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) with the introduction of Perl 5.18.

Version 1.27, April 2009

Unicode mode auto-converts ISO-8859-1 encoded text to UTF-8 so we can use the script for Western European languages such as French.
ASCII mode coerces any Unicode letters with macron or diaersis accents into ASCII letters
Always remove null bytes and any byte-order mark
Remove Mac Classic support

Version 1.23, April 2007

Allow three digit exercise numbers
In ASCII mode vowels with acute accents are treated as vowels with macrons and converted to uppper case vowels

Version 1.22, January 2007

Fix bug where "unicode" command was not being read.
Properly handle two or three =0A or =3D characters.
Add "longlines" command to turn off line wrapping at 70 characters.

Version 1.21, December 2005

Add "unicode" command to names.txt file. Previously you had to set $unicode = 1 in the source.

Version 1.20, November 2005

Support for a Macintosh drag-and-drop application.

Version 1.19, August 2005

Better handling of Unicode vowel+macron in translation mode.

Version 1.18, February 2005

Properly handle question mark, overbar, and byte order marker.
Directive 'wheelock' forces script to never go into translate mode.
Add 'GM' to default list of sections.

Version 1.17, June 2003

Quoted-printable uses only capital letters. Back out previous fix.

Version 1.16, June 2003

Suppress bogus =FE errors generated by MSN URLs.
Ignore files with a .pl extension.

Version 1.15, March 2003

Unicode: check for base64 encoding and expand if necessary.
Better logic for removing a single level of forward comment.
Handle Unicode em-dash and byte order marker.

Version 1.14, December 2002

Support for ae digraph.

Version 1.13, October 2002

Scrub out some more unicode when not running in Unicode mode.

Version 1.12, September 2002

Remove more HTML cruft as well as any UTF-8 encoded BOM
Version 1.11, September 2002

Get rid of trailing spaces showing up in base64 submissions.
Normalize EOL convention for base64 and quoted-printable text.

Version 1.10, September 2002

Handle base64 encoded messages when in Unicode mode.

Version 1.9, September 2002

Fix some unicode problems.
Schwartzian transform sorting of sections and initials.
Replace null Wheelock exercises with [] indicator.

Version 1.8, August 2002

Let truly crazy people use unicode in their names.txt file.

Version 1.7, August 2002

Convert quoted-printable tabs, linefeeds, and carriage returns.
Allow section names up to five characters, including numbers.
Trim leading white space from command arguments.

Version 1.6, August 2002

Support unicode via UTF-8 and quoted-printable

Version 1.5, August 2002

Cope with =F6 (o w/ diaeresis).

Version 1.4, July 2002

open and close single quotes

Version 1.3, June 2002

Handle "Phaeton" where the "e" has a diaeresis.

Version 1.2, May 2002

Improved unicode/iso-8859 translation.
Fix bug in trimming off RFC826 header

Version 1.1, April 2002

Start keeping a change log.
Script was written in January 1998