Free recode, version 3.6

The character set converter

Edition 3.6, 26 March 2001

• 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

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