[TCLCORE] identity encoding

[Donald G P. <don...@ni...>]

On 11/19/2012 01:36 PM, Duquette, William H (318K) wrote:
> The "identity" encoding
> Per Joe English, this encoding should be removed. (Actually, I think I
> heard on the last day of the conference that it's already gone; can
> someone confirm?)

What's already gone is the use of "identity" by Tcl during library
startup.

This should be a fairly simple one to commit to novem soon.  The one
useful place it has is in the test suite, where the ability to test how
the parser, etc. react to badly formed input string is tested with it
(disguised as [tcltest::bytestring]).  The correction is that this ought
not be part of the tcltest package of general testing harness commands,
but should be part of the Tcltest set of special testing commands for
testing Tcl internals only.

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