Re: [TCLCORE] Rationale for non-strict [binary decode]

[Andreas K. <and...@ac...>]

> ... ascii85 which
> isn't done but should be soon as its becoming used in more protocols now.

Interesting. Can you give us references to protocols doing so ?

In that context I should also note that the encoding used by
tclcompiler/tbcload is a (slightly) modified ascii85.

IIRC a \0 in the input is replaced by a 'z' instead of the regular coding,
and some output characters are remapped to avoid Tcl's special characters
( ", {, }, [, ], $, \ ): (string map {" v $ w [ x ] | \ y} (I have not made
sure of the proper Tcl quoting here)).


> The fix for just ignoring whitespace looks ok to me. I dont remember if
> there was a particular reason for ignoring any invalid characters and in
> the absence of specific tests or comments aboout the issue we may assume
> it is an accident. Ignoring whitespace is definately required.


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