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References

• The Free Software Foundation is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs.
• A proposed standard for interactions with the Window Manager can be found at freedesktop.org.
• The Independent JPEG Group which puts out the JPEG image implementation being used in FOX.
• More information about the JPEG image standard can be found on the Official JPEG Standard website.
• Information about the PNG Image Format can be found on the Portable Network Graphics Format Website.
• Information on how to deal nicely with various X11 Visual depths can be found in the following few articles by John Cwikla: Beyond the Default Visual, and X Color Context 1, and X Color Context 2.
• The XDND Drag and Drop Protocol is described in Drag-and-Drop Protocol for the X Window System designed by John Lindal.
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an organization working to protect our fundamental rights online.
• Consider signing the Petition Against Software Patents. Patents on software prevent many useful features from being added to FOX, for example, GIF compression using the LZW algorithm.
• TCPA/Palladium FAQ.
• Also take a look at the Anti-DMCA Petition.
• Information on the standard zlib compression library is found at ZLib Compression Library Website.
• The bzip2 and libbzip2 official home page contains everything about the bzip2 compression library.
• Additional information can be found on the Unofficial TIFF Home Page.
• Some notes on the TIFF format at Adobe.
• FOX to Ruby Language bindings are found on the FXRuby Website.
• The Definitive Source on Programming Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Developer Network.
• Valgrind, an open-source memory debugger for x86-GNU/Linux.
• The XFree86 Project,Inc., the standard GNU/Linux Window System.
• The Unix Socket FAQ everything about network programming on the UNIX system.
• The i18nGurus, a site carring lots of stuff about internationalization and localization.
• Details about the soon-to-appear AMD Hammer (Opteron) architecure and GNU/Linux ports to this hardware (will FOX run on it? You betcha!).
• The Free Standards Group is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the use and acceptance of open source technologies through the development, application and promotion of standards.
• The Red Hat Dev Net site contains a wealth of information for development on GNU/Linux in general and Red Hat in particular.
• The OpenGL website has a vast collection of OpenGL related information for graphics developers.
• The Mesa3D Library is an OpenGL replacement library which can be used on machines for which no hardware-accelerated OpenGL is available.
• The UNICODE Home Page has the standard UNICODE character set definition.
• Joel on Software: Unicode article.
• Perl, Unicode and i18N FAQ.
• The i18nguy has lots of stuff on internationalization and localization.
• The UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ has all the interesting information on the UTF-8 standard and its relevance to GNU/Linux.
• Frequently Asked Questions About Fonts from Norman Walsh.
• The IETF RFC for UTF-8 is found in RFC2279: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 This document replaces the earlier RFC2044. Here is another link to RFC2279.
• Roman Czyborra also wrote a few interesting documents on Unicode Transformation Formats.
• Character sets tables.
• A tutorial on character code issues.
• Everson Typography Home Page.
• More Information on Character Sets.
• The IEEE754 Floating Point number standard is described in The IEEE standard 754 for binary floating-point arithmetic.
• More on IEEE754 Floating Point is found on William Kahan's site.
• Additional light reading on IEEE 754 and 854 Floating Point.
• One of my favorite sites, the User Interface Hall of Shame. And yes, we are guilty just a little bit here and there!
• Markus Oberhumer's LZO compression algorithms.
• The UPX Packed Executable library.
• Wu's Color Quantizer Algorithm; also found in Graphics Gems vol. II, pp. 126-133.
• The Image Image File Format FAQ, and another Mirror of it.
• The list of IANA Mime Types which FOX uses for XDND data types.
• Gallery of CSS Descramblers. Source Code *is* Speech!
• Information about Fonts in X11.
• The GNU Unifont is a simple bitmapped font covering the entire UNICODE character set.
• IBM Classes for UNICODE.
• IANA Character Sets the assignment of character set names and numbers.
• Data Compression Info.
• Notes on Cross Compiling Linux to Windows.
• RMS on copyright.
• The Programmer's File Format Collection.
• SGI's Standard Template Library website.
• Unicode stuff by Mark Leisher.
• Julian Day Number. Explanation on use and definition of Julian Day numbers, not to be confused with Julian Calendar.
• A Summary of the International Standard Date and Time Notation by Markus Kuhn .
• Calendar FAQ background on various calendar systems around the world.
• Date Algorithms, by Peter Baum.
• The XBM Format.
• Information on localization Linguistik.
• OpenGL to PostScript Library.

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