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

[Jan N. <jan...@gm...>]

Op do 2 feb. 2023 om 18:11 schreef apnmbx-public--- via Tcl-Core:

> Jan,
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> I’ve implemented the profile based scheme below (strict, tcl8, {}) in the
> https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/timeline?r=apn-encoding-profile branch.
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Thanks.  I'll have a look.


> Further, I am not sure of the interaction (for 8.7) or even the intent of
> the CHANNEL_ENCODING_NOCOMPLAIN flag to configure. It seems to have no
> effect except for some interaction with TCL_NO_DEPRECATE for reasons I
> don’t understand.
>

That's correct. For 8.7 CHANNEL_ENCODING_NOCOMPLAIN is the default,
so setting the flag or not makes no difference. If you compile Tcl 8.7
with CFLAGS=-DTCL_NO_DEPRECATED, the encodings will start
behaving like in Tcl 9.0. This way it's possible to test the 9.0 behavior,
without continuously switching branches. So it speeds up development
maintaining 2 branches (8.7 and 9.0)

Hope this helps,
    Jan Nijtmans