Thanks, Gerhard.

> But is there a reason for the (perceived by me) arbitrary sort order?
>From the maintenance perspective I'd expect
something like ASCII (see 'man ascii')...

No _good_ reason. :) It was just my haphazard attempt at a sort.

> Just tell if you want to provide a followup commit that I can squash

No problem. Yes I will push a commit to my libsigrokdecode fork which
re-orders them as you suggested: punct, digits, alpha. And then I will ping
you when that's done and tested.

Best Regards,
Ben Gardiner


On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 1:37 PM Gerhard Sittig <gerhard.sit...@gmx.net>
wrote:

> On Sun, 2020-11-22 at 16:17 -0500, Ben Gardiner wrote:
> >
> > Expand the list of characters that will be recognized by the
> > seven segment decoder to include many display character
> > 'encodings.' Including some punctuation characters and tricky
> > letters like W and V.
> >
> > [ ... ]
> >
> >
> https://github.com/BenGardiner/sigrok-dumps/commit/fac5f2c3c88c9087e1c0c84d8877583126a59dd7
> >
> https://github.com/BenGardiner/sigrok-test/commit/e50d5cedfcda9aee82f6108531e4b2aa059f58e2
> >
> https://github.com/BenGardiner/libsigrokdecode/commit/05930e256fe273ba55628358121a67bacaaef89b
>
> The idea of covering more "printables" (especially alnum) sounds
> good to me. But is there a reason for the (perceived by me)
> arbitrary sort order? From the maintenance perspective I'd expect
> something like ASCII (see 'man ascii'). Granted that for the
> 7-segment case it'd be most appropriate to "fold" upper and lower
> case letters into one common alnum group. But I'd definitely
> expect punct then digits then alpha order during maintenance of
> the PD. Or is it just me?
>
> Just tell if you want to provide a followup commit that I can
> squash, or whether you want me to shuffle the order. The "show
> unknown" option also looks useful to me. And I'd pick all of it
> (the segments comment, too, very useful). Assuming that the test
> passes, haven't run it yet. PD output shouldn't change when the
> implementation changes the lookup table's order.
>
>
> virtually yours
> Gerhard Sittig
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