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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ When exact translations are not possible, the program may get rid of
offending characters or use approximations. Particular attention has
been paid to the proper representation of French language diacritics.
-Although we normally wouldn't put anything beta on SlackBuilds,
-this release fixes some long-standing bugs that everyone else has
-been patching for years.
+The original recode by pinard hasn't been updated in almost 10 years.
+It seems most distros have moved to a well-maintained fork by
+rrthomas and it's probably time we did too.
+
+NOTE: We are unable to update past 3.7.13 due to Slackware 15.0's
+autoconf being too old (2.69). recode-3.7.14+ requires autoconf 2.71+.