Re: [TCLCORE] Unicode in Tcl 9 - a commentary and critique

[Rolf A. <tcl...@po...>]

Christian Gollwitzer writes:
> Am 30.01.23 um 09:04 schrieb Harald Oehlmann:
>> For me, there are the following general decisions:
>> D1) encoding error reporting mode: remove "-nocomplain" (TIP601) or
>> "-strict" (TIP 346) (or, limit strict to modify the encoding and not
>> modify the reporting mode)
>
> When we talk about renaming these options, how about an "error mask"?
> I.e. a way to specify on what errors the encoding shold stop. e.g.
>
> -erroron {surrogates invalid wrongcode} ....
>
> where these names should be the ones defined by the UNicode consortium.
> Then everyone can pick their own failuremode. The same codes should then
> also be reported when the error occurs.

Haven't said much about this part of the discussion here on tcl-core (I
did on the tclers chat), because talking about too much different things at
once would just add more confusion to an obviously complex discussion.

But if the TCT would decide to open the discussion about the
functionality in question here - which I would welcome - then I surely
would argue for something along the lines Christian proposes here.

rolf