README file for recode/contrib/

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.

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.

• Emacs Lisp files

  • 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.

• RPM spec files

  • recode.spec1

    RPM spec file to prepare Recode 3.5c on RedHat. Submitted by David Lebel, 2000-06.

  • recode.spec2

    RPM spec file to prepare Recode 3.5d on RedHat. Submitted by Bennett Todd, 2002-01. Bennett writes (more or less):

    This spec file allows portable building. Users could download the tar archive and simply rpm -ta it to build themselves source and binary rpms. If they had their rpm directory, they could even do it while not being root. For example, my ~/.rpmmacros reads:

    %_topdir    /home/bet/rpm
    

    without a leading tab. Hence my /usr/src/redhat/ is still root:root, and yet I can do my rpm building as myself.

• Amiga port

  Files in the Amiga/ directory should allow building Recode on Amiga. Submitted by Stefan Haubenthal, 1998-11, for version 3.4k.

• DJGPP port

  Files in the DJGPP/ directory should allow building Recode on MSDOS/DJGPP. Submitted by Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan.guerrero@gmx.de>, 2001-03, for a pretest towards version 3.6. For this port, there is a README file.

  For the record, a previous port was submitted by Wojciech Galazka <wgalazka@chem.uw.edu.pl>, 1997-11, for version 3.4.1.