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The recode reference manual

Table of Contents

1. Quick Tutorial
2. Terminology and purpose

2.1 Overview of charsets
2.2 Overview of surfaces
2.3 Contributions and bug reports

3. How to use this program

3.1 Synopsis of recode call
3.2 The request parameter
3.3 Asking for various lists
3.4 Controlling how files are recoded
3.5 Reversibility issues
3.6 Selecting sequencing methods
3.7 Using mixed charset input
3.8 Using recode within Emacs
3.9 Debugging considerations

4. A recoding library

4.1 Outer level functions
4.2 Request level functions
4.3 Task level functions
4.4 Charset level functions
4.5 Handling errors

5. The universal charset

5.1 Universal Character Set, 2 bytes
5.2 Universal Character Set, 4 bytes
5.3 Universal Transformation Format, 7 bits
5.4 Universal Transformation Format, 8 bits
5.5 Universal Transformation Format, 16 bits
5.6 Frequency count of characters
5.7 Fully interpreted UCS dump

6. The iconv library
7. Tabular sources (RFC 1345)
8. ASCII and some derivatives

8.1 Usual ASCII
8.2 ASCII extended by Latin Alphabets
8.3 ASCII 7-bits, BS to overstrike
8.4 ASCII without diacritics nor underline

9. Some IBM or Microsoft charsets

9.1 EBCDIC code
9.2 IBM's PC code
9.3 Unisys' Icon code

10. Charsets for CDC machines

10.1 Control Data's Display Code
10.2 ASCII 6/12 from NOS
10.3 ASCII "bang bang"

11. Other micro-computer charsets

11.1 Apple's Macintosh code
11.2 Atari ST code

12. Various other charsets

12.1 World Wide Web representations
12.2 LaTeX macro calls
12.3 GNU project documentation files
12.4 Vietnamese charsets
12.5 African charsets
12.6 Cyrillic and other charsets
12.7 Easy French conventions
12.8 Mule as a multiplexed charset

13. All about surfaces

13.1 Permuting groups of bytes
13.2 Representation for end of lines
13.3 MIME contents encodings
13.4 Interpreted character dumps
13.5 Artificial data for testing

14. Internal aspects

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

Concept Index
Option Index
Library Index
Charset and Surface Index