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

[<apn...@ya...>]

A comment on Christian's -erroron mask suggestion.

-erroron would define what constitutes an error. But it does not say what
should be done in case of that error which I think is the more important
issue to address.

So for example, if \xC0 is encountered in [encoding convertfrom utf-8],
should that be mapped to U+00C0, mapped to U+FFFD, raise an exception etc. I
think that is more important than distinguishing between error cases like
surrogate in utf-8 vs \xC0 in utf-8.

So while it may have some use, it doesn't really address the current
discussion.

/Ashok

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Gollwitzer <aur...@gm...>
> 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.
> 
> Which one of these shall become the default, is then purely bikeshedding.
> 
> 
> 	Christian
> 
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