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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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