There are two parts to implementing a new encoding. First, methods for creating an encoded or decoded stream must be provided. These have defaults, however, which wrap a stream in an encoder or decoder wrapper with the given encoding descriptor.

<encoder> ( stream encoding -- newstream )

<decoder> ( stream encoding -- newstream )

If an encoding might be contained in the code slot of an encoder or decoder tuple, then the following methods must be implemented to read or write one code point from a stream:

decode-char ( stream encoding -- char/f )

encode-char ( char stream encoding -- )

See also
An introduction to encodings