The recode reference manual

This recoding library converts files between various coded character sets and surface encodings. When this cannot be achieved exactly, it may get rid of the offending characters or fall back on approximations. The library recognises or produces more than 300 different character sets and is able to convert files between almost any pair. Most RFC 1345 character sets, and all libiconv character sets, are supported. The recode program is a handy front-end to the library.

The current recode release is 3.6.

1. Quick Tutorial
2. Terminology and purpose
3. How to use this program
4. A recoding library
5. The universal charset
6. The iconv library
7. Tabular sources (RFC 1345)
8. ASCII and some derivatives
9. Some IBM or Microsoft charsets
10. Charsets for CDC machines
11. Other micro-computer charsets
12. Various other charsets
13. All about surfaces
14. Internal aspects
Concept Index
Option Index
Library Index
Charset and Surface Index

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Terminology and purpose

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

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

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

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

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

Some IBM or Microsoft charsets

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

Charsets for CDC machines

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

Other micro-computer charsets

11.1 Apple's Macintosh code
11.2 Atari ST code

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

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

Internal aspects

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