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

On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 17:04:26 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

  situation.  If the script is iso-8859 encoded, but Tcl's default
  parsing reads it as UTF-8, then all of the iso-8859 characters
  inside are already corrupted *before* even the first command in the
  script is executed.  So there's no way to "source" a
  "set_encoding.tcl" /in the main script itself/, that would adjust
  the encoding before the main script is parsed using the wrong
  encoding.
>

**************************

I see.

How about trading places?

Instead of main.tcl sourcing set_encoding.tcl, starter.tcl runs some
'encoding' command then sources main.tcl. Basically, a wrapper.

Do we have a cigar?

Another option is to run 'iconv' recursively on all those source files.

I did something like that some 15 years ago. But my case involved a
migration. I had a ton of legacy iso-8859 files on a system-wide
utf-8 Linux system. That caused me problems too, but iconv fixed it.


--
Luc

>