* README file for `recode/contrib/'. -*- outline -*- (allout)
.* Hi, people!
The `contrib/' directory of the `recode' distribution contains a few
miscellaneous tools, ports, or such things, which have been collected
here and there, a bit randomly, for your possible entertainment or use.
Beware that nothing here is supported by the `recode' maintainer, you
might have to contact the authors directly to get support. There is no
guarantee that any file in this directory will still exist in subsequent
releases. Finally, there is no guarantee either that I will accept
to include contributions, unless I find them very good or very small.
But I'm quite willing to give URL pointers to other tools, right here!
.* Included files
To the best of my knowledge, all included files are free, and already
available widely by other means. I did not collect any kind legalistic
papers proving that the contained material is indeed free. In case of
a dispute, or at the mere request of the author, I'll quickly remove
any dubious material. So, do not consider the files here as being as
*safe* as the things you usually get from the Free Software Foundation.
Please drop me a note about what you found to be useful, in here,
to help me at deciding what should be kept and what should go away.
. + utf8.el
This tool helps Emacs users at inserting UTF-8 encoded ISO-10646 or
Unicode characters in an Emacs buffer. Submitted by Gary Houston
<ghouston@actrix.gen.nz> to `gnu.emacs.sources', 1994-10.
. + recode.el
This is a miscellaneous collection of tools, documented in French,
for using `recode' from Emacs, when Latin-1 is in use. Submitted by
François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>, 1994-12.
. + djgpp-README
. + djgpp-diffs
These files represent a port of version 3.4.1 of `recode' to DJGPP,
submitted by Wojciech Galazka <wgalazka@chem.uw.edu.pl>, 1997-11.
. + Makefile.amiga
. + Makefile.amiga-lib
These makefiles allow building `recode' 3.4k on Amiga.
Submitted by Stefan Haubenthal, 1998-11.
. + recode.spec
RPM spec file to prepare `recode' on RedHat.
Submitted by David Lebel, 2000-06.
.* External pointers
. + Documentation
. - IETF references
. : Character Mnemonics & Character Sets
ftp://nic.ddn.mil/rfc/rfc1345.txt
Keld Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>, 1992-06.
. : UTF-7 - A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode
ftp://nic.ddn.mil/rfc/rfc1642.txt
David Goldsmith <david_goldsmith@taligent.com> and Mark Davis
<ark_davis@taligent.com>, 1994-07.
. : UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646
ftp://nic.ddn.mil/rfc/rfc2044.txt
François Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com>, 1997-10.
. - Various references
. : Unicode charset mappings
ftp://ftp.unicode.org:/Public/MAPPINGS/
The Unicode consortium makes available plenty of charset mappings
for converting "legacy" charsets to Unicode.
. - Normalisation et internationalisation: Inventaire et prospectives des
normes clefs pour le traitement informatique du français. (392p.)
This is a report, written in French, discussing charset issues and many
other topics as well. Laurent Bourbeau <bourbeau@progiciels-bpi.ca>
and François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>, 1995-10.
ftp://ftp.iro.umontreal.ca/pub/contrib/pinard/accents/oqil-tome1.ps.gz
http://www.ceveil.qc.ca/Normes
. + Programs
. - libiconv
This comprehensive charset converter library revolves around Unicode,
and support Asian encodings among many others. Even `recode' uses it!
ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/libiconv-1.3.tar.gz
Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>
. - tcs
Here is the main recoding tool from the Plan9 project.
ftp://research.att.com/dist/tcs.shar.Z
. - yuedit
This GUI editor handles many encodings, among which UTF-8. It also
installs uniconv, a recoding program, and uniprint, a printing tool.
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/editors/X/yudit-1.2.tar.gz
Gaspar Sinai <gsinai@iname.com>, 1999-01.
. - ucs-fonts
These 6x13 fonts, covering Unicode characters besides the Asian sets,
merely replace the Linux fixed 6x13 font. Works nicely with yudit.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz
Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>, 1998-11.
. - MtRecode
This charset converter is oriented towards SGML text manipulation. It
may be freely downloaded for non-commercial, non-military use from:
http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/multext/MtRecode/
Pointer given by Jean Véronis <veronis@univ-aix.fr>, 1996-06.
. - sp
This quite nice SGML structure analyser contains internal C++ modules
for handling many charsets.
ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/sp/sp-1.3.tar.gz
James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
. - b2c
This program is able to generate interpreted
character dumps, but properly embedded within complete C header files.
http://research.de.uu.net:8080/~gnu/b2c/b2c-2.1.tar.gz
Jörg Heitkötter <Joerg.Heitkoetter@de.uu.net>, 1997-11.
. - PyRecode
This wrapper provides Free `recode' functionnality to Python programs.
http://www.suxers.de/PyRecode.tgz
Andreas Jung <ajung@server.python.net>
Also see:
http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?find=recode
http://www.suxers.de/python/pyrecode.htm
.* Non-Unix ports or alikes
Please mailto:recode-bugs@iro.umontreal.ca if you are aware of various
ports to non-Unix systems not listed here, or for corrections. Please
provide the goal system, a complete and stable URL, the maintainer name
and address, the recode version used as a base, and your comments.
. + IBM/PC (MSDOS)
. - ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/rcode34b.zip
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/rcode34s.zip
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/rcode34d.zip
(for binaries, sources and docs respectively)
maintained by Wojciech Galazka <wgalazka@chem.uw.edu.pl>
Based on recode 3.4.1.
. - http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/
http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/pc/gnuish (Germany)
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/simtelnet/gnu
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/pc/gnuish
maintained by Darrel Hankerson <hankedr@mail.auburn.edu>
You get many GNU tools, not only `recode'. The GNUish project is
described in `gnuish_t.htm'.
