Free recode, version 3.5

The character set converter

Edition 3.5, 27 April 1999

• Quick Tutorial
• Terminology and purpose
  • Overview of charsets
  • Overview of surfaces
  • Contributions and bug reports
• How to use this program
  • Synopsis of recode call
  • The request parameter
  • Asking for various lists
  • Controlling how files are recoded
  • Reversibility issues
  • Selecting sequencing methods
  • Using mixed charset input
  • Using recode within Emacs
• A recoding library
  • Outer level functions
  • Request level functions
  • Task level functions
  • Charset level functions
  • Handling errors
• The universal charset
  • Universal Character Set, 2 bytes
  • Universal Character Set, 4 bytes
  • Universal Transformation Format, 7 bits
  • Universal Transformation Format, 8 bits
  • Universal Transformation Format, 16 bits
  • Frequency count of characters
  • Fully interpreted UCS dump
• Tabular sources (RFC 1345)
• ASCII and some derivatives
  • Usual ASCII
  • ASCII extended by Latin Alphabets
  • ASCII 7-bits, BS to overstrike
  • ASCII without diacritics nor underline
• Some IBM or Microsoft charsets
  • EBCDIC code
  • IBM's PC code
  • Unisys' Icon code
• Charsets for CDC machines
  • Control Data's Display Code
  • ASCII 6/12 from NOS
  • ASCII "bang bang"
• Other micro-computer charsets
  • Apple's Macintosh code
  • Atari ST code
• Various other charsets
  • World Wide Web representations
  • LaTeX macro calls
  • GNU project documentation files
  • African charsets
  • Cyrillic charsets
  • Easy French conventions
  • Mule as a multiplexed charset
• All about surfaces
  • Permuting groups of bytes
  • Representation for end of lines
  • MIME contents encodings
  • Interpreted character dumps
  • Artificial data
• Internal aspects
  • Overall organisation
  • Adding new charsets
  • Adding new surfaces
  • Comments on the library design

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