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+'\"
+'\" Copyright (c) 1997-1998 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+'\"
+'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
+'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
+'\"
+.TH Tcl_GetEncoding 3 "8.1" Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
+.so man.macros
+.BS
+.SH NAME
+Tcl_GetEncoding, Tcl_FreeEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingFromObj, Tcl_ExternalToUtfDString, Tcl_ExternalToUtf, Tcl_UtfToExternalDString, Tcl_UtfToExternal, Tcl_WinTCharToUtf, Tcl_WinUtfToTChar, Tcl_GetEncodingName, Tcl_SetSystemEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingNameFromEnvironment, Tcl_GetEncodingNames, Tcl_CreateEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingSearchPath, Tcl_SetEncodingSearchPath, Tcl_GetDefaultEncodingDir, Tcl_SetDefaultEncodingDir \- procedures for creating and using encodings
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
+.sp
+Tcl_Encoding
+\fBTcl_GetEncoding\fR(\fIinterp, name\fR)
+.sp
+void
+\fBTcl_FreeEncoding\fR(\fIencoding\fR)
+.sp
+int
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingFromObj\fR(\fIinterp, objPtr, encodingPtr\fR)
+.sp
+char *
+\fBTcl_ExternalToUtfDString\fR(\fIencoding, src, srcLen, dstPtr\fR)
+.sp
+char *
+\fBTcl_UtfToExternalDString\fR(\fIencoding, src, srcLen, dstPtr\fR)
+.sp
+int
+\fBTcl_ExternalToUtf\fR(\fIinterp, encoding, src, srcLen, flags, statePtr,
+ dst, dstLen, srcReadPtr, dstWrotePtr, dstCharsPtr\fR)
+.sp
+int
+\fBTcl_UtfToExternal\fR(\fIinterp, encoding, src, srcLen, flags, statePtr,
+ dst, dstLen, srcReadPtr, dstWrotePtr, dstCharsPtr\fR)
+.sp
+char *
+\fBTcl_WinTCharToUtf\fR(\fItsrc, srcLen, dstPtr\fR)
+.sp
+TCHAR *
+\fBTcl_WinUtfToTChar\fR(\fIsrc, srcLen, dstPtr\fR)
+.sp
+const char *
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingName\fR(\fIencoding\fR)
+.sp
+int
+\fBTcl_SetSystemEncoding\fR(\fIinterp, name\fR)
+.sp
+const char *
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingNameFromEnvironment\fR(\fIbufPtr\fR)
+.sp
+void
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingNames\fR(\fIinterp\fR)
+.sp
+Tcl_Encoding
+\fBTcl_CreateEncoding\fR(\fItypePtr\fR)
+.sp
+Tcl_Obj *
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingSearchPath\fR()
+.sp
+int
+\fBTcl_SetEncodingSearchPath\fR(\fIsearchPath\fR)
+.sp
+const char *
+\fBTcl_GetDefaultEncodingDir\fR(\fIvoid\fR)
+.sp
+void
+\fBTcl_SetDefaultEncodingDir\fR(\fIpath\fR)
+.SH ARGUMENTS
+.AS "const Tcl_EncodingType" *dstWrotePtr in/out
+.AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
+Interpreter to use for error reporting, or NULL if no error reporting is
+desired.
+.AP "const char" *name in
+Name of encoding to load.
+.AP Tcl_Encoding encoding in
+The encoding to query, free, or use for converting text. If \fIencoding\fR is
+NULL, the current system encoding is used.
+.AP Tcl_Obj *objPtr in
+Name of encoding to get token for.
+.AP Tcl_Encoding *encodingPtr out
+Points to storage where encoding token is to be written.
+.AP "const char" *src in
+For the \fBTcl_ExternalToUtf\fR functions, an array of bytes in the
+specified encoding that are to be converted to UTF-8. For the
+\fBTcl_UtfToExternal\fR and \fBTcl_WinUtfToTChar\fR functions, an array of
+UTF-8 characters to be converted to the specified encoding.
+.AP "const TCHAR" *tsrc in
+An array of Windows TCHAR characters to convert to UTF-8.
+.AP int srcLen in
+Length of \fIsrc\fR or \fItsrc\fR in bytes. If the length is negative, the
+encoding-specific length of the string is used.
+.AP Tcl_DString *dstPtr out
+Pointer to an uninitialized or free \fBTcl_DString\fR in which the converted
+result will be stored.
+.AP int flags in
+Various flag bits OR-ed together.
+\fBTCL_ENCODING_START\fR signifies that the
+source buffer is the first block in a (potentially multi-block) input
+stream, telling the conversion routine to reset to an initial state and
+perform any initialization that needs to occur before the first byte is
+converted. \fBTCL_ENCODING_END\fR signifies that the source buffer is the last
+block in a (potentially multi-block) input stream, telling the conversion
+routine to perform any finalization that needs to occur after the last
+byte is converted and then to reset to an initial state.
+\fBTCL_ENCODING_STOPONERROR\fR signifies that the conversion routine should
+return immediately upon reading a source character that does not exist in
+the target encoding; otherwise a default fallback character will
+automatically be substituted.
+.AP Tcl_EncodingState *statePtr in/out
+Used when converting a (generally long or indefinite length) byte stream
+in a piece-by-piece fashion. The conversion routine stores its current
+state in \fI*statePtr\fR after \fIsrc\fR (the buffer containing the
+current piece) has been converted; that state information must be passed
+back when converting the next piece of the stream so the conversion
+routine knows what state it was in when it left off at the end of the
+last piece. May be NULL, in which case the value specified for \fIflags\fR
+is ignored and the source buffer is assumed to contain the complete string to
+convert.
+.AP char *dst out
+Buffer in which the converted result will be stored. No more than
+\fIdstLen\fR bytes will be stored in \fIdst\fR.
+.AP int dstLen in
+The maximum length of the output buffer \fIdst\fR in bytes.
+.AP int *srcReadPtr out
+Filled with the number of bytes from \fIsrc\fR that were actually
+converted. This may be less than the original source length if there was
+a problem converting some source characters. May be NULL.
+.AP int *dstWrotePtr out
+Filled with the number of bytes that were actually stored in the output
+buffer as a result of the conversion. May be NULL.
+.AP int *dstCharsPtr out
+Filled with the number of characters that correspond to the number of bytes
+stored in the output buffer. May be NULL.
+.AP Tcl_DString *bufPtr out
+Storage for the prescribed system encoding name.
+.AP "const Tcl_EncodingType" *typePtr in
+Structure that defines a new type of encoding.
+.AP Tcl_Obj *searchPath in
+List of filesystem directories in which to search for encoding data files.
+.AP "const char" *path in
+A path to the location of the encoding file.
+.BE
+.SH INTRODUCTION
+.PP
+These routines convert between Tcl's internal character representation,
+UTF-8, and character representations used by various operating systems or
+file systems, such as Unicode, ASCII, or Shift-JIS. When operating on
+strings, such as such as obtaining the names of files or displaying
+characters using international fonts, the strings must be translated into
+one or possibly multiple formats that the various system calls can use. For
+instance, on a Japanese Unix workstation, a user might obtain a filename
+represented in the EUC-JP file encoding and then translate the characters to
+the jisx0208 font encoding in order to display the filename in a Tk widget.
+The purpose of the encoding package is to help bridge the translation gap.
+UTF-8 provides an intermediate staging ground for all the various
+encodings. In the example above, text would be translated into UTF-8 from
+whatever file encoding the operating system is using. Then it would be
+translated from UTF-8 into whatever font encoding the display routines
+require.
+.PP
+Some basic encodings are compiled into Tcl. Others can be defined by the
+user or dynamically loaded from encoding files in a
+platform-independent manner.
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetEncoding\fR finds an encoding given its \fIname\fR. The name may
+refer to a built-in Tcl encoding, a user-defined encoding registered by
+calling \fBTcl_CreateEncoding\fR, or a dynamically-loadable encoding
+file. The return value is a token that represents the encoding and can be
+used in subsequent calls to procedures such as \fBTcl_GetEncodingName\fR,
+\fBTcl_FreeEncoding\fR, and \fBTcl_UtfToExternal\fR. If the name did not
+refer to any known or loadable encoding, NULL is returned and an error
+message is returned in \fIinterp\fR.
+.PP
+The encoding package maintains a database of all encodings currently in use.
+The first time \fIname\fR is seen, \fBTcl_GetEncoding\fR returns an
+encoding with a reference count of 1. If the same \fIname\fR is requested
+further times, then the reference count for that encoding is incremented
+without the overhead of allocating a new encoding and all its associated
+data structures.
+.PP
+When an \fIencoding\fR is no longer needed, \fBTcl_FreeEncoding\fR
+should be called to release it. When an \fIencoding\fR is no longer in use
+anywhere (i.e., it has been freed as many times as it has been gotten)
+\fBTcl_FreeEncoding\fR will release all storage the encoding was using
+and delete it from the database.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingFromObj\fR treats the string representation of
+\fIobjPtr\fR as an encoding name, and finds an encoding with that
+name, just as \fBTcl_GetEncoding\fR does. When an encoding is found,
+it is cached within the \fBobjPtr\fR value for future reference, the
+\fBTcl_Encoding\fR token is written to the storage pointed to by
+\fIencodingPtr\fR, and the value \fBTCL_OK\fR is returned. If no such
+encoding is found, the value \fBTCL_ERROR\fR is returned, and no
+writing to \fB*\fR\fIencodingPtr\fR takes place. Just as with
+\fBTcl_GetEncoding\fR, the caller should call \fBTcl_FreeEncoding\fR
+on the resulting encoding token when that token will no longer be
+used.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ExternalToUtfDString\fR converts a source buffer \fIsrc\fR from the
+specified \fIencoding\fR into UTF-8. The converted bytes are stored in
+\fIdstPtr\fR, which is then null-terminated. The caller should eventually
+call \fBTcl_DStringFree\fR to free any information stored in \fIdstPtr\fR.
+When converting, if any of the characters in the source buffer cannot be
+represented in the target encoding, a default fallback character will be
+used. The return value is a pointer to the value stored in the DString.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_ExternalToUtf\fR converts a source buffer \fIsrc\fR from the specified
+\fIencoding\fR into UTF-8. Up to \fIsrcLen\fR bytes are converted from the
+source buffer and up to \fIdstLen\fR converted bytes are stored in \fIdst\fR.
+In all cases, \fI*srcReadPtr\fR is filled with the number of bytes that were
+successfully converted from \fIsrc\fR and \fI*dstWrotePtr\fR is filled with
+the corresponding number of bytes that were stored in \fIdst\fR. The return
+value is one of the following:
+.RS
+.IP \fBTCL_OK\fR 29
+All bytes of \fIsrc\fR were converted.
+.IP \fBTCL_CONVERT_NOSPACE\fR 29
+The destination buffer was not large enough for all of the converted data; as
+many characters as could fit were converted though.
+.IP \fBTCL_CONVERT_MULTIBYTE\fR 29
+The last few bytes in the source buffer were the beginning of a multibyte
+sequence, but more bytes were needed to complete this sequence. A
+subsequent call to the conversion routine should pass a buffer containing
+the unconverted bytes that remained in \fIsrc\fR plus some further bytes
+from the source stream to properly convert the formerly split-up multibyte
+sequence.
+.IP \fBTCL_CONVERT_SYNTAX\fR 29
+The source buffer contained an invalid character sequence. This may occur
+if the input stream has been damaged or if the input encoding method was
+misidentified.
+.IP \fBTCL_CONVERT_UNKNOWN\fR 29
+The source buffer contained a character that could not be represented in
+the target encoding and \fBTCL_ENCODING_STOPONERROR\fR was specified.
+.RE
+.LP
+\fBTcl_UtfToExternalDString\fR converts a source buffer \fIsrc\fR from UTF-8
+into the specified \fIencoding\fR. The converted bytes are stored in
+\fIdstPtr\fR, which is then terminated with the appropriate encoding-specific
+null. The caller should eventually call \fBTcl_DStringFree\fR to free any
+information stored in \fIdstPtr\fR. When converting, if any of the
+characters in the source buffer cannot be represented in the target
+encoding, a default fallback character will be used. The return value is
+a pointer to the value stored in the DString.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_UtfToExternal\fR converts a source buffer \fIsrc\fR from UTF-8 into
+the specified \fIencoding\fR. Up to \fIsrcLen\fR bytes are converted from
+the source buffer and up to \fIdstLen\fR converted bytes are stored in
+\fIdst\fR. In all cases, \fI*srcReadPtr\fR is filled with the number of
+bytes that were successfully converted from \fIsrc\fR and \fI*dstWrotePtr\fR
+is filled with the corresponding number of bytes that were stored in
+\fIdst\fR. The return values are the same as the return values for
+\fBTcl_ExternalToUtf\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_WinUtfToTChar\fR and \fBTcl_WinTCharToUtf\fR are
+Windows-only convenience
+functions for converting between UTF-8 and Windows strings
+based on the TCHAR type which is by convention
+a Unicode character on Windows NT.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingName\fR is roughly the inverse of \fBTcl_GetEncoding\fR.
+Given an \fIencoding\fR, the return value is the \fIname\fR argument that
+was used to create the encoding. The string returned by
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingName\fR is only guaranteed to persist until the
+\fIencoding\fR is deleted. The caller must not modify this string.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_SetSystemEncoding\fR sets the default encoding that should be used
+whenever the user passes a NULL value for the \fIencoding\fR argument to
+any of the other encoding functions. If \fIname\fR is NULL, the system
+encoding is reset to the default system encoding, \fBbinary\fR. If the
+name did not refer to any known or loadable encoding, \fBTCL_ERROR\fR is
+returned and an error message is left in \fIinterp\fR. Otherwise, this
+procedure increments the reference count of the new system encoding,
+decrements the reference count of the old system encoding, and returns
+\fBTCL_OK\fR.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingNameFromEnvironment\fR provides a means for the Tcl
+library to report the encoding name it believes to be the correct one
+to use as the system encoding, based on system calls and examination of
+the environment suitable for the platform. It accepts \fIbufPtr\fR,
+a pointer to an uninitialized or freed \fBTcl_DString\fR and writes
+the encoding name to it. The \fBTcl_DStringValue\fR is returned.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingNames\fR sets the \fIinterp\fR result to a list
+consisting of the names of all the encodings that are currently defined
+or can be dynamically loaded, searching the encoding path specified by
+\fBTcl_SetDefaultEncodingDir\fR. This procedure does not ensure that the
+dynamically-loadable encoding files contain valid data, but merely that they
+exist.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_CreateEncoding\fR defines a new encoding and registers the C
+procedures that are called back to convert between the encoding and
+UTF-8. Encodings created by \fBTcl_CreateEncoding\fR are thereafter
+visible in the database used by \fBTcl_GetEncoding\fR. Just as with the
+\fBTcl_GetEncoding\fR procedure, the return value is a token that
+represents the encoding and can be used in subsequent calls to other
+encoding functions. \fBTcl_CreateEncoding\fR returns an encoding with a
+reference count of 1. If an encoding with the specified \fIname\fR
+already exists, then its entry in the database is replaced with the new
+encoding; the token for the old encoding will remain valid and continue
+to behave as before, but users of the new token will now call the new
+encoding procedures.
+.PP
+The \fItypePtr\fR argument to \fBTcl_CreateEncoding\fR contains information
+about the name of the encoding and the procedures that will be called to
+convert between this encoding and UTF-8. It is defined as follows:
+.PP
+.CS
+typedef struct Tcl_EncodingType {
+ const char *\fIencodingName\fR;
+ Tcl_EncodingConvertProc *\fItoUtfProc\fR;
+ Tcl_EncodingConvertProc *\fIfromUtfProc\fR;
+ Tcl_EncodingFreeProc *\fIfreeProc\fR;
+ ClientData \fIclientData\fR;
+ int \fInullSize\fR;
+} \fBTcl_EncodingType\fR;
+.CE
+.PP
+The \fIencodingName\fR provides a string name for the encoding, by
+which it can be referred in other procedures such as
+\fBTcl_GetEncoding\fR. The \fItoUtfProc\fR refers to a callback
+procedure to invoke to convert text from this encoding into UTF-8.
+The \fIfromUtfProc\fR refers to a callback procedure to invoke to
+convert text from UTF-8 into this encoding. The \fIfreeProc\fR refers
+to a callback procedure to invoke when this encoding is deleted. The
+\fIfreeProc\fR field may be NULL. The \fIclientData\fR contains an
+arbitrary one-word value passed to \fItoUtfProc\fR, \fIfromUtfProc\fR,
+and \fIfreeProc\fR whenever they are called. Typically, this is a
+pointer to a data structure containing encoding-specific information
+that can be used by the callback procedures. For instance, two very
+similar encodings such as \fBascii\fR and \fBmacRoman\fR may use the
+same callback procedure, but use different values of \fIclientData\fR
+to control its behavior. The \fInullSize\fR specifies the number of
+zero bytes that signify end-of-string in this encoding. It must be
+\fB1\fR (for single-byte or multi-byte encodings like ASCII or
+Shift-JIS) or \fB2\fR (for double-byte encodings like Unicode).
+Constant-sized encodings with 3 or more bytes per character (such as
+CNS11643) are not accepted.
+.PP
+The callback procedures \fItoUtfProc\fR and \fIfromUtfProc\fR should match the
+type \fBTcl_EncodingConvertProc\fR:
+.PP
+.CS
+typedef int \fBTcl_EncodingConvertProc\fR(
+ ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
+ const char *\fIsrc\fR,
+ int \fIsrcLen\fR,
+ int \fIflags\fR,
+ Tcl_EncodingState *\fIstatePtr\fR,
+ char *\fIdst\fR,
+ int \fIdstLen\fR,
+ int *\fIsrcReadPtr\fR,
+ int *\fIdstWrotePtr\fR,
+ int *\fIdstCharsPtr\fR);
+.CE
+.PP
+The \fItoUtfProc\fR and \fIfromUtfProc\fR procedures are called by the
+\fBTcl_ExternalToUtf\fR or \fBTcl_UtfToExternal\fR family of functions to
+perform the actual conversion. The \fIclientData\fR parameter to these
+procedures is the same as the \fIclientData\fR field specified to
+\fBTcl_CreateEncoding\fR when the encoding was created. The remaining
+arguments to the callback procedures are the same as the arguments,
+documented at the top, to \fBTcl_ExternalToUtf\fR or
+\fBTcl_UtfToExternal\fR, with the following exceptions. If the
+\fIsrcLen\fR argument to one of those high-level functions is negative,
+the value passed to the callback procedure will be the appropriate
+encoding-specific string length of \fIsrc\fR. If any of the \fIsrcReadPtr\fR,
+\fIdstWrotePtr\fR, or \fIdstCharsPtr\fR arguments to one of the high-level
+functions is NULL, the corresponding value passed to the callback
+procedure will be a non-NULL location.
+.PP
+The callback procedure \fIfreeProc\fR, if non-NULL, should match the type
+\fBTcl_EncodingFreeProc\fR:
+.PP
+.CS
+typedef void \fBTcl_EncodingFreeProc\fR(
+ ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
+.CE
+.PP
+This \fIfreeProc\fR function is called when the encoding is deleted. The
+\fIclientData\fR parameter is the same as the \fIclientData\fR field
+specified to \fBTcl_CreateEncoding\fR when the encoding was created.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingSearchPath\fR and \fBTcl_SetEncodingSearchPath\fR
+are called to access and set the list of filesystem directories searched
+for encoding data files.
+.PP
+The value returned by \fBTcl_GetEncodingSearchPath\fR
+is the value stored by the last successful call to
+\fBTcl_SetEncodingSearchPath\fR. If no calls to
+\fBTcl_SetEncodingSearchPath\fR have occurred, Tcl will compute an initial
+value based on the environment. There is one encoding search path for the
+entire process, shared by all threads in the process.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_SetEncodingSearchPath\fR stores \fIsearchPath\fR and returns
+\fBTCL_OK\fR, unless \fIsearchPath\fR is not a valid Tcl list, which
+causes \fBTCL_ERROR\fR to be returned. The elements of \fIsearchPath\fR
+are not verified as existing readable filesystem directories. When
+searching for encoding data files takes place, and non-existent or
+non-readable filesystem directories on the \fIsearchPath\fR are silently
+ignored.
+.PP
+\fBTcl_GetDefaultEncodingDir\fR and \fBTcl_SetDefaultEncodingDir\fR
+are obsolete interfaces best replaced with calls to
+\fBTcl_GetEncodingSearchPath\fR and \fBTcl_SetEncodingSearchPath\fR.
+They are called to access and set the first element of the \fIsearchPath\fR
+list. Since Tcl searches \fIsearchPath\fR for encoding data files in
+list order, these routines establish the
+.QW default
+directory in which to find encoding data files.
+.SH "ENCODING FILES"
+Space would prohibit precompiling into Tcl every possible encoding
+algorithm, so many encodings are stored on disk as dynamically-loadable
+encoding files. This behavior also allows the user to create additional
+encoding files that can be loaded using the same mechanism. These
+encoding files contain information about the tables and/or escape
+sequences used to map between an external encoding and Unicode. The
+external encoding may consist of single-byte, multi-byte, or double-byte
+characters.
+.PP
+Each dynamically-loadable encoding is represented as a text file. The
+initial line of the file, beginning with a
+.QW #
+symbol, is a comment
+that provides a human-readable description of the file. The next line
+identifies the type of encoding file. It can be one of the following
+letters:
+.IP "[1] \fBS\fR"
+A single-byte encoding, where one character is always one byte long in the
+encoding. An example is \fBiso8859-1\fR, used by many European languages.
+.IP "[2] \fBD\fR"
+A double-byte encoding, where one character is always two bytes long in the
+encoding. An example is \fBbig5\fR, used for Chinese text.
+.IP "[3] \fBM\fR"
+A multi-byte encoding, where one character may be either one or two bytes long.
+Certain bytes are lead bytes, indicating that another byte must follow
+and that together the two bytes represent one character. Other bytes are not
+lead bytes and represent themselves. An example is \fBshiftjis\fR, used by
+many Japanese computers.
+.IP "[4] \fBE\fR"
+An escape-sequence encoding, specifying that certain sequences of bytes
+do not represent characters, but commands that describe how following bytes
+should be interpreted.
+.PP
+The rest of the lines in the file depend on the type.
+.PP
+Cases [1], [2], and [3] are collectively referred to as table-based encoding
+files. The lines in a table-based encoding file are in the same
+format as this example taken from the \fBshiftjis\fR encoding (this is not
+the complete file):
+.PP
+.CS
+# Encoding file: shiftjis, multi-byte
+M
+003F 0 40
+00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+FF80FF81FF82FF83FF84FF85FF86FF87FF88FF89FF8AFF8BFF8CFF8DFF8EFF8F
+FF90FF91FF92FF93FF94FF95FF96FF97FF98FF99FF9AFF9BFF9CFF9DFF9EFF9F
+0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
+0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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+0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000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.CE
+.PP
+The third line of the file is three numbers. The first number is the
+fallback character (in base 16) to use when converting from UTF-8 to this
+encoding. The second number is a \fB1\fR if this file represents the
+encoding for a symbol font, or \fB0\fR otherwise. The last number (in base
+10) is how many pages of data follow.
+.PP
+Subsequent lines in the example above are pages that describe how to map
+from the encoding into 2-byte Unicode. The first line in a page identifies
+the page number. Following it are 256 double-byte numbers, arranged as 16
+rows of 16 numbers. Given a character in the encoding, the high byte of
+that character is used to select which page, and the low byte of that
+character is used as an index to select one of the double-byte numbers in
+that page \- the value obtained being the corresponding Unicode character.
+By examination of the example above, one can see that the characters 0x7E
+and 0x8163 in \fBshiftjis\fR map to 203E and 2026 in Unicode, respectively.
+.PP
+Following the first page will be all the other pages, each in the same
+format as the first: one number identifying the page followed by 256
+double-byte Unicode characters. If a character in the encoding maps to the
+Unicode character 0000, it means that the character does not actually exist.
+If all characters on a page would map to 0000, that page can be omitted.
+.PP
+Case [4] is the escape-sequence encoding file. The lines in an this type of
+file are in the same format as this example taken from the \fBiso2022-jp\fR
+encoding:
+.PP
+.CS
+.ta 1.5i
+# Encoding file: iso2022-jp, escape-driven
+E
+init {}
+final {}
+iso8859-1 \ex1b(B
+jis0201 \ex1b(J
+jis0208 \ex1b$@
+jis0208 \ex1b$B
+jis0212 \ex1b$(D
+gb2312 \ex1b$A
+ksc5601 \ex1b$(C
+.CE
+.PP
+In the file, the first column represents an option and the second column
+is the associated value. \fBinit\fR is a string to emit or expect before
+the first character is converted, while \fBfinal\fR is a string to emit
+or expect after the last character. All other options are names of
+table-based encodings; the associated value is the escape-sequence that
+marks that encoding. Tcl syntax is used for the values; in the above
+example, for instance,
+.QW \fB{}\fR
+represents the empty string and
+.QW \fB\ex1b\fR
+represents character 27.
+.PP
+When \fBTcl_GetEncoding\fR encounters an encoding \fIname\fR that has not
+been loaded, it attempts to load an encoding file called \fIname\fB.enc\fR
+from the \fBencoding\fR subdirectory of each directory that Tcl searches
+for its script library. If the encoding file exists, but is
+malformed, an error message will be left in \fIinterp\fR.
+.SH KEYWORDS
+utf, encoding, convert