Appendix A - Character Encoding

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§ 6  - Appendix A - Character Encoding§ 6.1  - Character Setaa_macrov3 processes, and uses, the English language based ASCII character set. In particular, the one-byte length codes from 0x0A to 0x7F. Characters outside the ASCII character set can (must) be represented by constructs within the generated output, such as &#code; in HTML.
For instance, the HTML code for the checkmark character is &#10003; so one might proceed as follows:

Define a style that provides the checkmark: [gstyle cm &#10003;]

Use that style where needed: {cm}

Resulting in: ✓
ASCII is a compatible subset of UTF-8.
§ 6.2  - Line Encodingaa_macrov3 Considers an end-of-line to be a single 0x0A (line feed) character, in conformance with linux and OS X / MacOS text content conventions. In particular, output suppression of newlines flagged with two trailing spaces will fail if an 0x0A is preceded by an 0x0D (return) character.
Note:Newlines are only significant to aa_macrov3 in the sense that they can be generated as part of the output consequent to their being present in the input, and in that they are available as an escape code, [nl]. aa_macrov3 does not require newlines.

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You can also address any need to generate CR/LF terminated output using the  [translate]  and  [cmap]  built-ins, by replacing the 10th character generated by  [cmap]  with a CR/LF pair, then translating your content accordingly.

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This manual was generated with wtfm on February 18th, 2026 at 12:52 MT wtfm uses aa_macrov3 and SqLite aa_macrov3 uses Python 3