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

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 3:53:53 +0000, Luc wrote:

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:12:48 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:
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2) Use the "system encoding" (which is still 'imposing', just
'imposing' whatever the OS itself imposes).

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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.
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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?
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The 8.6 way is wiser.

Not sure... your choice of encoding may not be the one of your
application users.
In this case, your code may fail to load in the user's encoding choice.
Eric
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