1.05    Jul 2, 2025

        Initial version

1.06    Jul 2, 2025

        Better version handling

1.07    Jul 3, 2025

        Added AUTHOR and HISTORY files and small improvements to the executable

1.08    Jul 3, 2025

        Vastly improved token handling, expanded symbols, and improved
        documentation.

        New symbol list feature as well as search.

1.09    Jul 3, 2025

        Automatic version handling improved.

1.10    Jul 5, 2025

        Improved color grid output for -c option

1.11    Jul 5, 2025

        Added option to module to abbreviate the symbols list.  This speeds
        up initialization.  The abbreviated symbols are U2400 to U25FF

1.12    Jul 8, 2025

        Better control of the symbols table.  Shortening it speeds things up.
        The executable has a new option to enable a full symbol table (if
        needed).

1.13    Jul 8, 2025

        Added more symbols to the full version of the symbol table.  It's
        HUGE.

1.14    Jul 10, 2025

        Improved "--help" output

1.15    Jul 20, 2025

        Improve Token, Help and Symbols output

1.16    Jul 20, 2025

        Better token, symbol and unicode support.  Added some attributes.

1.17    Jul 20, 2025

        Added new option to -h output

1.18    Jul 24, 2025

        Changed the Tokens table in README.md to Github markup.
        Added "dump" to the help for options.

1.19    Aug 01, 2025

        Updated the options for the ansi-encode script, as well as
        the banner.vt file used with Makefile.PL

1.21    Aug 15, 2025

        Help and symbol output overhaul and more Unicode characters when
        --full is used.

1.23    Aug 19, 2025

        More visual improvements with options output

1.24    Aug 23, 2025

        Fixed issue not opening text files in binary mode for special unicode
        letters.

1.25    Aug 27, 2025

        Improved testing

1.26    Aug 28, 2025

        Apparently my new testing methodology ticked off some CPAN testers.
        So I'll relax them a bit.

        Changed the license.

1.27    Aug 10, 2025

        Fixed a runaway loop in "-t" output.
        
        Removed the "one character at a time" output left over from the
        old BBS Universal code.  Output is much faster now.

1.28    Aug 10, 2025

        Updated the documentation to be better informative on CPAN.

1.29    Sept 26, 2025

        More tokens and RGB color handling.

1.30    Oct 06, 2025

        Eliminated the need for unicode hash values

1.31    Oct 06, 2025

        Fixed testing error

1.32    Oct 17, 2025

        Improved unicode output with -s & -d

1.33    Oct 18, 2025

        Added a plethora of colors

1.34    Oct 20, 2025

        Fixed some POD issues and fixed HORIZONTAL RULE handling.

1.35    Oct 22, 2025

        Fixed ALL POD issues.  Ugh.

1.36    Oct 28, 2025

        Changed the tokens and help screen.  Added more descriptions including
        Indication of original 16 colors for limited terminals.

1.37    Oct 29, 2025

        Tokens output defaults to only the 16 colors and the new "expanded"
        option will show all color tokens.
        
        Unicode output defaults to a squashed output and the new "expanded"
        option will show dividers between each row to better discern symbol
        output.

1.38    Oct 30, 2025

        Added more frame styles

1.39    Oct 30, 2025

        Added even more frame styles

1.40    Nov 02, 2025

        The "expanded" option is removed.  It now depends on the COLORTERM
        environment variable and the "truecolor" value.

1.41    Nov 02, 2025

        Version 1.40 removed from CPAN.  The "--expanded" option re-added.
        However, the default is to respond to the "COLORTERM" enviroment
        value.  The "--expanded" option reverses the default.

        Note:  "--expanded" only applies to the "--tokens" option.

1.42    Nov 06, 2025

        Ok, I know it's frustrating, but I completely removed the "expanded"
        option.  Full detection of 256 color and truecolor capability has been
        implemented.

1.43    Nov 06, 2025

        The "tokens" option has a more informative output for all of the
        various color types.  This had the side effect of more available
        tokens.

1.44    Nov 06, 2025

        Internal token handling improved.

        "tokens" option output also improved

1.45    Nov 11, 2025

        Added "ansi-modes" option to show supported ANSI color support.

        Changed version handling

1.46    Nov 14, 2025

        Color option fix

1.47    Nov 21, 2025

        Added many optimizations

1.48    Nov 26, 2025

        Fixed search bug
        Improved testing

1.49    Dec 09, 2025

        Revamped the -t tokens table
        Added "UNDERLINE COLOR" token for terminals that support it.

1.50    Dec 11, 2025

        Fixed a token typo

1.51    Dec 13, 2025

        Improved testing

1.52    Dec 14, 2025

        Fixed a small bug in the -t token output for underline color

1.53    Dec 14, 2025

        Made testing much more informative and nice to look at.

1.54    Dec 18, 2025

        Filtered output of "-t" option to color support of terminal

1.55    Dec 18, 2025

        Shrank the bin/ansi-encode source a bit my compressing repetitions

1.56    Dec 18, 2025

        Revamped the module to make the source easy to read.

1.57    Dec 22, 2025

        Minor changes.

1.58    Dec 26, 2025

        Optimized -d --dump option.

1.59    Dec 27, 2025

        More memory friendly.

        THIS VERSION WAS REMOVED

1.60    Dec 28, 2025

        Yikes!  1.59 had bugs.  I could swear it worked, but obviously it had issues.
        There were also typos in the manual page.

        Hopefully all of the bugs, typos and other issues are fixed now.

        Note, in the "-t" or "--tokens" option of the "ansi-encode" executable,
        the labeling of the colors are changed.

1.61    Dec 28, 2025

        Changed ANSI color description format in the tokens output of the
        "ansi-encode" script.

        Updated the manual page.

1.62    Jan 03, 2026

        DEFAULT color description for foreground/background corrected.

1.63    Jan 06, 2025

        Added "WRAP text ENDWRAP" and "JUSTIFIED text ENDJUSTIFIED" tokens.
        Added a baud rate feature for showing animated ANSI screens at the
        correct speed.

1.69    Jan 12, 2026

        Moved the color list to the library and removed from the main script.
        Improved the color list.

1.70    Jan 13, 2026

        Compacted color listing

1.71    Jan 13, 2026

        Color listing will fix on narrow screens.

1.72    Jan 13, 2026

        Made tokens option fit on narrow screens.

1.73    Jan 13, 2026

        Optimized the ansi_colors method.

1.74    Jan 13, 2026

        Whoops, I left the debug code enabled.

1.75    Jan 14, 2026

        Added more tokens to the tokens option

		Fixed the man page errors

1.76    Jan 14, 2026

        Improved ansi_colors and color format detection improvements.

1.77    Jan 14, 2026

        Corrected terminal type color capability and added a new method.

1.78    Jan 14, 2026

        Further hardening of ANSI capablity detection with bnetter Windows
		compatibility.

1.79    Jan 14, 2026

        Minor documentation fixes

1.80    Jan 17, 2026

        Fixed the bright color bug

1.81    Jan 17, 2026

        Color list handles 3,4,8 and 24 bit recognition correctly

1.82    Jan 17, 2026

        Removed the need for Term::ANSIColor in the module.

1.83    Jan 18, 2026

        Removed the need for Term::ANSIScreen.

1.84    Jan 19, 2026

        Minor changes in the executable.

1.85    Jan 19, 2026

        Many changes to Makefile.PL, README.md and ansi-encode

1.86    Jan 31, 2026

        Added Windows Warp terminal detection (handles 24 bit color)

1.87    Feb 02, 2026

        Moved many funtions to the module.

1.88    Feb 12, 2026

        Removed unneeded prerequisites from install process.

1.89    Fed 17, 2026

        Example ANS files added to the "examples" directory.  Some will
		require a wide terminal.

        New tokens added

1.90    Feb 17, 2026

        Added image examples to README.me in "examples" directory

1.91    Feb 22, 2026

        Improved tokens help output.

1.92    Feb 24, 2026

        Added more frames
        Removed redundant color definitions

1.93    Mar 03, 2026

        Added more tokens and macro tokens.

1.94    Mar 03, 2026

        Added the extra tokens to the -t option

1.95    Mar 23, 2026

        Added examples to the POD documentation

1.96    Mar 23, 2026

        MetaCPAN has this weird behavior using the bin/ansi-encode file for
		the documentation.  Weird I made some changes to help minimize this
		weirdness.

1.96    Mar 25, 2026

        Renamed the executable to "ansiencode" to get around the MetaCPAN
		weirdness.

1.98    Mar 25, 2026

        Boy did I go on an adventure delving into the mysteries of
		ExtUtils::MakeMaker.  GitHub A.I. and I struggled to add a symlink
		ability to the "make install" feature, as I renamed the executable
		from "ansi-encode" (a stupid MetaCPAN problem) to "ansiencode".
		I wanted legacy compatibility so older calls wouldn't die so
		the "make install" would create a symlink (in Unix-like systems)
		to the old "ansi-encode".  So both "ansiencode" and "ansi-encode"
		still works.  To quote Adrian from "Adrian's Digital Basement",
		"It freaking works!" after nearly 45 minutes of back and forth wi
		A.I. help.

        As you can tell I am not a frequent user of "make", so this was a
		nightmare.

1.99    Mar 25, 2026

        Yeah, MetaCPAN is really cheesing me off.  This should fix it.

2.00    May 17, 2026

        Changes to documentation and some code clean up.
