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14. Internal aspects

The incoming explanations of the internals of recode should help people who want to dive into recode sources for adding new charsets. Adding new charsets does not require much knowledge about the overall organisation of recode. You can rather concentrate of your new charset, letting the remainder of the recode mechanics take care of interconnecting it with all others charsets.

If you intend to play seriously at modifying recode, beware that you may need some other GNU tools which were not required when you first installing recode. If you modify or create any `.l' file, then you need Flex, and some better awk like mawk, GNU awk, or nawk. If you modify the documentation (and you should!), you need makeinfo. If you are really audacious, you may also want Perl for modifying tabular processing, then m4, Autoconf, Automake and libtool for adjusting configuration matters.

14.1 Overall organisation  
14.2 Adding new charsets  
14.3 Adding new surfaces  
14.4 Comments on the library design  


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