Character Images

In general any character can be mapped to any sequence of up to four character sized images (called glyphs) when it is drawn into a window. The TAB character is a notable exception; it expands to as many spaces as are needed to fill up to the next tab stop.

By default, the editor is set up to display the following,

0 to 31

A caret (`^') followed by the ASCII value of the character exclusive-or'd with 0x40, i.e. `^@' to `^_'.

32 to 126

Printed literally, this includes all "normal" characters and punctuation.

127

`^?'

128 to 255

Represented by the octal escape sequence (i.e. `\200') for that character's numeric value.

If you want to edit files containing characters in the Latin1 character set (numerically, from 160 to 255) you can put the following in your `.jaderc' file,

(latin-1-mode)

this will redefine the necessary characters.

If you want more details about this sort of thing see section Glyph Tables.

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