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

Am 13.12.2024 um 16:02 schrieb Uwe Schmitz:

Folks,
 is it possible in Tcl9 to get the old (8.x) behaviour back,
that tcl files are read with system encoding instead of
utf-8?
Is there e.g. an environment variable or a configure
switch to change this?
 I found:
 --with-encoding         encoding for configuration values (default: utf-8)
 but, what is meant with "configuration values"?
 I've the problem that almost all of my sources contain some
umlauts and are, for legacy reasons, in iso8859-1. If it's
not possible to get the old behavior back, I have to
edit every pkgIndex.tcl and every tclsh <script> call
before I'm able to migrate.
 Thanks in advance
Uwe
 

Hi Uwe,
source -encoding iso8859-1 $file
I put those in the package index files which source the package files.
Remark that msgcat message files are always in utf-8.
The great TCL9 migration helper by Ashok tries to find the related files.
Take care,
Harald