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CODE128: Add new extra escape \^1 for manual insertion of FNC1s,

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ticket #324, props Jim Shank;
  also improve encodation for a few limited cases;
  also some code fiddling
BWIPP: update to latest
raster: check for overflow on `size + size2` in `raster_malloc()`
vector: put `malloc()`s on one line for grep ease
docs: pandoc-3.3, clang-tidy-20
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Zint Barcode Generator and Zint Barcode Studio User Manual
Version 2.13.0.9
June 2024
September 2024
*******************************************************************************
* For reference the following is a text-only version of the Zint manual, *
@@ -720,7 +720,8 @@ sequences are shown in the table below.
Table : Escape Sequences
(Special escape sequences are available for Code 128 only to manually switch
Code Sets - see 6.1.10.1 Standard Code 128 (ISO 15417) for details.)
Code Sets and/or insert special FNC1 characters - see 6.1.10.1 Standard Code 128
(ISO 15417) for details.)
Input data can be read directly from file using the -i or --input switch as
shown below. The input file is assumed to be UTF-8 formatted unless an
@@ -3029,6 +3030,11 @@ sequence, it can be escaped by doubling the caret (^). For instance
will encode the data "ABC\^BDEF" in Code Set A.
There is also the extra escape \^1, which will encode a special Function Code 1
character (FNC1) anywhere you chose in the data, for instance
zint -b CODE128 -d "A\^1BC\^1DEF" --extraesc
Code 128 is the default barcode symbology used by Zint. In addition Zint
supports the encoding of ISO/IEC 8859-1 (non-English) characters in Code 128
symbols. The ISO/IEC 8859-1 character set is shown in Annex A.2 Latin Alphabet
@@ -3045,8 +3051,8 @@ It is sometimes advantageous to stop Code 128 from using Code Set C which
compresses numerical data. The BARCODE_CODE128AB[14] variant (symbology 60)
suppresses Code Set C in favour of Code Sets A and B.
Note that the special escapes to manually switch Code Sets mentioned above are
not available for this variant (nor for any other).
Note that the special extra escapes mentioned above are not available for this
variant (nor for any other).
6.1.10.3 GS1-128
@@ -4817,7 +4823,7 @@ configured barcode is displayed once the "Generate" button is pressed.
Annex D. Man Page ZINT(1)
% ZINT(1) Version 2.13.0.9 % % June 2024
% ZINT(1) Version 2.13.0.9 % % September 2024
NAME
@@ -5011,9 +5017,10 @@ OPTIONS
--extraesc
Process the special escape sequences \^A, \^B and \^C that allow manual
switching of Code Sets (Code 128 only). The sequence \^^ can be used to
encode data that contains special escape sequences.
For Code 128 only, process the special escape sequences \^A, \^B and \^C
that allow manual switching of Code Sets, and the special escape sequence
\^1 that inserts an FNC1 character. The sequence \^^ can be used to encode
data that contains special escape sequences.
--fast