+my @request;
+
+sub tabinput {
+ # generate character table(s)
+ my $input = shift or return;
+
+ state $ALIAS = {
+ default => [qw( unicode+0-639 utf-8 iso-8859-1 iso-8859-15 cp1252 cp437 cp850 )],
+ us => [qw( cp437 cp863 AdobeStandardEncoding gsm0338 )],
+ ebcdic => [qw( cp37 cp500 cp875 cp1026 cp1047 posix-bc )],
+ iso => [map {"iso-8859-$_"} 1 .. 11, 13 .. 16],
+ dos => [qw( cp437 cp865 cp861 cp860 cp863 cp850 cp857 cp852 cp775
+ cp737 cp869 cp866 cp855 cp862 cp864 )],
+ aix => [qw( cp1006 )],
+ win => [qw( cp1252 cp1250 cp1254 cp1257 cp1258 cp1253 cp1251 cp1255 cp1256 cp874 )],
+ mac => [qw( MacRoman MacRomanian MacRumanian MacCroatian MacCentralEurRoman MacTurkish MacIcelandic MacSami
+ MacGreek MacCyrillic MacHebrew MacArabic MacFarsi MacThai )],
+
+ # languages
+ westeur => [qw( iso-8859-1 iso-8859-15 cp1252 iso-8859-14 cp850 hp-roman8 nextstep MacRoman )],
+ centeur => [qw( iso-8859-2 iso-8859-16 cp1250 cp852 MacRomanian MacCroatian MacCentralEurRoman )], # MacRumanian only for DB
+ turkish => [qw( iso-8859-9 iso-8859-3 cp1254 cp857 MacTurkish )],
+ baltic => [qw( iso-8859-4 iso-8859-13 cp1257 cp775 )],
+ nordic => [qw( iso-8859-10 cp865 cp861 MacIcelandic MacSami )],
+ cyrillic => [qw( koi8-r koi8-u koi8-f iso-8859-5 cp1251 MacCyrillic cp866 cp855 )], # MacUkrainian is broken
+ arabic => [qw( iso-8859-6 cp1256 MacArabic cp864 cp1006 MacFarsi )],
+ greek => [qw( iso-8859-7 cp1253 MacGreek cp737 cp869 )],
+ hebrew => [qw( iso-8859-8 cp1255 MacHebrew cp862 )],
+ thai => [qw( iso-8859-11 cp874 MacThai )],
+ vietnamese => [qw( viscii cp1258 MacVietnamese )],
+ symbol => [qw( symbol dingbats MacDingbats AdobeZdingbat AdobeSymbol )],
+
+ # iso-code shorthand
+ 1 => 'westeur',
+ 2 => 'centeur',
+ 3 => 'turkish',
+ 4 => 'baltic',
+ 5 => 'cyrillic',
+ 6 => 'arabic',
+ 7 => 'greek',
+ 8 => 'hebrew',
+ 9 => 'turkish',
+ 10 => 'nordic',
+ 11 => 'thai',
+ };
+ if (my $follow = $ALIAS->{$input}) {
+ tabinput($_) for ref $follow ? @{$follow} : $follow;
+ return;
+ }
+
+ state $visible = {}; # all present tables
+ my %row = (offset => 0, cols => 16);
+ my $endpoint = 255;
+ my $params = $input =~ s/[+](.*)\z// ? $1 : undef;
+
+ if (not defined $params) {
+ use List::Util qw( first pairfirst pairs );
+
+ state $INHERIT = {
+ 'cp437' => ['cp850' => 0], # ascii range overridden later
+ 'gsm0338' => ['ascii' => '0-127'],
+
+ 'iso-8859-2' => ['iso-8859-1' => '160'],
+ 'iso-8859-3' => ['iso-8859-1' => '160'], #TODO: also apply to iso-8859-9
+ 'iso-8859-4' => ['iso-8859-2' => '160'],
+ 'iso-8859-5' => ['iso-8859-1' => '160'],
+ 'iso-8859-6' => ['cp1256' => '128', 'iso-8859-1' => '160'],
+ 'iso-8859-7' => ['iso-8859-1' => '160'],
+ 'iso-8859-8' => ['iso-8859-1' => '160'],
+ 'iso-8859-9' => ['iso-8859-1' => '208-223+240'],
+ 'iso-8859-10' => ['iso-8859-4' => '160'],
+ 'iso-8859-11' => ['iso-8859-1' => '160'],
+ 'iso-8859-13' => ['iso-8859-4' => '160'],
+ 'iso-8859-14' => ['iso-8859-1' => '160'],
+ 'iso-8859-15' => ['iso-8859-1' => '160-191'],
+ 'iso-8859-16' => ['iso-8859-2' => '160'],
+ 'hp-roman8' => ['iso-8859-1' => '160'],
+
+ 'cp1252' => ['iso-8859-1' => '128-159'],
+ 'cp1250' => ['iso-8859-2' => '128-191', 'cp1252' => '128'],
+ 'cp1254' => ['iso-8859-9' => '128-159', 'cp1252' => '128-159+208'],
+ 'cp874' => ['iso-8859-11' => '128-159', 'cp1252' => '128'], # windows-874 actually cp1162
+ 'cp1257' => ['iso-8859-13' => '128-159+255', 'cp1252' => '128'],
+ 'cp1251' => ['cp1252' => '128'],
+ 'cp1253' => ['cp1252' => '128'],
+ 'cp1255' => ['iso-8859-8' => '128-223', 'cp1252' => '128'],
+ 'cp1256' => ['cp1252' => '128'],
+ 'cp1258' => ['cp1252' => '128-159+192'],