RELEASE: Recode 0.2

François Pinard pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
Thu, 03 Oct 2002 19:11:03 -0400


Hello, everybody.

Recodec is a Python (2.2.1 or better) clone of Free `recode', and as such,
it converts strings or files between character sets and usages.  Version
0.2 is now at http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/recodec/Recodec.tar.gz.
See http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/recodec/ for a copy of `README'.

Pretesters may gently report problems, suggestions or other comments
to mailto:pinard@iro.umontreal.ca.  `recode'-related discussions go to
mailto:recode-forum@iro.umontreal.ca, which is opened to subscribers.
Python specific discussions might go to mailto:python-list@python.org.

User visible changes since last release:

.. `--help' option added, better some documentation than none!
.. `--find-subsets' (`-T') option deleted, now a separate program.
.. New aliases `q4' and `QNX-4' for `IBM437'.

A few bugs have been corrected.  After profiling the test suite, I got
a 4x speed-up through quicker alias disambiguation, and also by special
casing common cases to avoid finding the shortest path in graph of steps.

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard