(recode.info)Internals

---

Next: Concept Index Prev: Surfaces Up: Top

---

Enter node , (file) or (file)node

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.

Main flow

Overall organisation

New charsets

Adding new charsets

New surfaces

Adding new surfaces

Design

Comments on the library design