Re: [TCLCORE] Manpage updates for review

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

Am 11.11.2025 um 06:33 schrieb apnmbx-public--- via Tcl-Core:
> The branch apn-doc-update <https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/timeline?r=apn- 
> doc-update> contains manpage updates addressing two areas –
> 
>   * added a section in Tcl.n that defines Tcl string value as a sequence
>     of Unicode code points.
>   * updates to various command and C API pages that wrongly identify
>     Tcl’s internal format as UTF-8. For this purpose the encoding name
>     TUTF-8 has been introduced to reference Tcl’s internal modified
>     UTF-8 format.
> 
> Reviews appreciated and improvements welcome. Both have been a pet peeve 
> with me for a long time (and probably no one else!) in that the first is 
> important missing information and the second is misinformation.
> 
> I plan to merge in a couple of weeks. Silence will be construed as 
> approval 😊
> 
> /Ashok
+1, great proposal!

Side note: At one point, the documentation speaks about "normalized 
(T)UTF-8". I only saw it in the diff. Normalized utf-8 is a big word...

And I always learn new English terms like "pet peeve" from you, thanks 
for that.

Take care,
Harald