Extended charset via escapes. DE added to retransmits

mainwindow.cpp

@@ -163,8 +163,7 @@ QVector<QColor> g_ColorTbl;
 namespace
 {
   Radio::Frequency constexpr default_frequency {14074000};
-  QRegExp message_alphabet {"[- A-Za-z0-9+./?:!^]*"};
+  QRegExp message_alphabet {"[- A-Za-z0-9+./?:!]*"}; // base alphabet supported by FT8
-  QRegExp message_input_alphabet {"[- A-Za-z0-9+./?\\n:!^,&@#$%*()<>'\"|=]*"};
   // grid exact match excluding RR73
   QRegularExpression grid_regexp {"\\A(?![Rr]{2}73)[A-Ra-r]{2}[0-9]{2}([A-Xa-x]{2}){0,1}\\z"};
 
@@ -5442,17 +5441,15 @@ int MainWindow::logRxTxMessageText(QDateTime date, QString text, int freq, bool
         c.insertBlock();
     }
 
-    if(tx){
+    if(found && !tx){
-        text = "<strong>" + text + "</strong>";
-
-        // TODO: jsherer - move this out of this function
-        m_rxFrameBlockNumbers.clear();
-    }
-
-    if(found){
         c.clearSelection();
         c.insertText(text);
     } else {
+        text = text.toHtmlEscaped();
+        if(tx){
+            text = QString("<strong>%1</strong>").arg(text);
+            m_rxFrameBlockNumbers.clear();
+        }
         c.insertHtml(QString("<strong>%1 - (%2)</strong> - %3").arg(date.time().toString()).arg(freq).arg(text));
     }
 
@@ -5573,9 +5570,11 @@ void MainWindow::on_extFreeTextMsgEdit_currentTextChanged (QString const& text)
 {
     QString x;
     QString::const_iterator i;
+    auto validChars = Varicode::huffValidChars();
     for(i = text.constBegin(); i != text.constEnd(); i++){
-        if(message_input_alphabet.exactMatch(QString(*i))){
+        auto ch = (*i).toUpper();
-            x += (*i).toUpper();
+        if(validChars.contains(ch) || ch == '\n'){
+            x += ch;
         }
     }
     if(x != text){
@@ -8733,8 +8732,8 @@ void MainWindow::displayActivity(bool force){
       }
       // PROCESS RETRANSMIT
       else if(d.cmd == "|" && !isAllCall){
-          // TODO: jsherer - perhaps parse d.text and ensure it is a valid message?
+          // TODO: jsherer - perhaps parse d.text and ensure it is a valid message as well as prefix it with our call...
-          reply = QString("%1 ACK\n%2").arg(d.from).arg(d.text);
+          reply = QString("%1 ACK\n%2 DE %1").arg(d.from).arg(d.text);
       }
 
       if(reply.isEmpty()){

varicode.cpp

@@ -124,14 +124,14 @@ QMap<QChar, QString> hufftable = {
     { '\x04' , "110101100010" }, // 1       <- eot
 
     /*
-    A-Z 0-9 Space . ! ? : + - / \\
+    A-Z 0-9 Space \\ ? / : - + !
     special chars that are escaped will be added here too...
     */
 };
 
 /*
-original: space + - / ? . ! : \\
+original: Space \\ ? / : - + !
-needed: ^,&@#$%*()<>'"|={}[];_~`
+needed: ^,&@#$%'"()<>|*[]{}=;_~`
 */
 QMap<QString, QChar> huffescapes = {
     {  "\\ ",   '^'  },
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ QMap<QString, QChar> huffescapes = {
 
 #if 0
     // reserved <= 14 bits
-    {  "\\1",   ''  },
+    {  "\\1",   '' },
     {  "\\2",   ''  },
     {  "\\3",   ''  },
     {  "\\4",   ''  },
@@ -415,6 +415,10 @@ QString Varicode::huffEscape(QString const &input){
     return text;
 }
 
+QSet<QChar> Varicode::huffValidChars(){
+    return QSet<QChar>::fromList(hufftableescaped.keys());
+}
+
 bool Varicode::huffShouldEscape(QString const &input){
     foreach(auto ch, huffescapes.values()){
         if(input.contains(ch)){

varicode.h

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ public:
 
     static QString huffUnescape(QString const &input);
     static QString huffEscape(QString const &input);
+    static QSet<QChar> huffValidChars();
     static bool huffShouldEscape(QString const &input);
 
     static QVector<bool> bytesToBits(char * bitvec, int n);