[TCLCORE] Summary of my favorite tickets of this week

[Christian W. <Chr...@t-...>]

Hello friends of critical thinking,

here we go, the top 3 are:

1. Floating point numbers

Ticket
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/info/42d14c495a096159
got at least a branch of its own now. IMO it deserves
much attention since its non-solution keeps the doors
wide open for penetrators presenting loooooooooooong
floating point strings to your innocent maiden Tcl
script.

2. TIP#302

This discussion is universal and got revival in a new
ticket this time in the Tk repo:
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/info/2f1086ac088c3593
Now even the Python users of Tkinter (with Tcl under
the hood) get aware of this long standing problem.
Time is heavy sometimes…

3. The text widget's -blockcursor option

The heat is on, see ticket
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/info/5d0bc3cfec7c1adb
and we've got still no clue what should be done.
Put ICU on hold on not MacOS platforms or live with
differences between ICU and platform dependent font
rendering.

I hope these points will be addressed in the not so
distant future.

Wish you all a nice weekend,
Christian