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| author | jan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net> | 2021-04-09 15:32:25 (GMT) |
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| committer | jan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net> | 2021-04-09 15:32:25 (GMT) |
| commit | 5af218dc06ebe82cfe6cc917e61440ea55bba378 (patch) | |
| tree | 8cc62dfd8f0a9fa61aa1e42dad8813dc1a3bd140 /doc | |
| parent | 1f9783b09da0834206c2895474c941e5730e719c (diff) | |
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Document that Tcl 8.7 no longer uses a (modified) CESU-8 as internal format, but a (modified) WTF-8.
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diff --git a/doc/string.n b/doc/string.n index 7cd53ca..7413e6b 100644 --- a/doc/string.n +++ b/doc/string.n @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ Formally, the \fBstring bytelength\fR operation returns the content of the \fIlength\fR field of the \fBTcl_Obj\fR structure, after calling \fBTcl_GetString\fR to ensure that the \fIbytes\fR field is populated. This is highly unlikely to be useful to Tcl scripts, as Tcl's internal -encoding is not strict UTF\-8, but rather a modified CESU\-8 with a +encoding is not strict UTF\-8, but rather a modified WTF\-8 with a denormalized NUL (identical to that used in a number of places by Java's serialization mechanism) to enable basic processing with non-Unicode-aware C functions. As this representation should only |