Re: Tcl9: source files are interpreted as utf-8 by default

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:12:48 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

2) Use the "system encoding" (which is still 'imposing', just
'imposing' whatever the OS itself imposes).

Is the OS really imposing though? I honestly don't know about Windows,
but Linux lets me choose the system-wide encoding. And whatever I
chose, I must've chosen it for some reason. It's not Tcl's place
to challenge my decision.

And if the poor sorry Windows user really can't choose his encoding,
then why should Tcl make the user's life even more difficult?

The 8.6 way is wiser.

--
Luc

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