Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.6.15 Release Candidates

[Harald O. <har...@el...>]

Am 16.09.2024 um 17:53 schrieb Donald G Porter via Tcl-Core:
> On 9/15/24 06:50, Harald Oehlmann wrote
>> In the release notes, it might be helpful, that the following is only 
>> for Windows platform:
>>
>> * Repair encoding flaws in [info hostname] visible for non-ASCII names.
> The symptom is observed on Windows, but the changes committed to fix it 
> are in generic code.
> 
> FWIW, I have some doubts that the fix applied continues to solve the 
> design problem of the ProcessGlobalValues that they can operate both 
> before and after Tcl's encoding subsystem is fully initialized.  It was 
> always a difficult problem to try to operate under a system encoding 
> before the filesystem can be used to reach the *.enc files that define 
> the operations of that encoding.
> 
> As more of the world adopted utf-8 as their system encoding, the problem 
> faded, and now that newer Tcl releases provide the encoding definition 
> files in a zip-archive attached filesystem under the built-in utf-8 
> encoding, the problem might be entirely put to rest. Hope it doesn't 
> snag any 8.6.15 users.
> 
Thank you for your insights and valuable clarifications !
Harald