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diff --git a/doc/Encoding.3 b/doc/Encoding.3
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--- a/doc/Encoding.3
+++ b/doc/Encoding.3
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
.so man.macros
.BS
.SH NAME
-Tcl_GetEncoding, Tcl_FreeEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingFromObj, Tcl_ExternalToUtfDString, Tcl_ExternalToUtf, Tcl_UtfToExternalDString, Tcl_UtfToExternal, Tcl_GetEncodingName, Tcl_SetSystemEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingNameFromEnvironment, Tcl_GetEncodingNames, Tcl_CreateEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingSearchPath, Tcl_SetEncodingSearchPath, Tcl_GetDefaultEncodingDir, Tcl_SetDefaultEncodingDir \- procedures for creating and using encodings
+Tcl_GetEncoding, Tcl_FreeEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingFromObj, Tcl_ExternalToUtfDString, Tcl_ExternalToUtf, Tcl_UtfToExternalDString, Tcl_UtfToExternal, Tcl_GetEncodingName, Tcl_SetSystemEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingNameFromEnvironment, Tcl_GetEncodingNames, Tcl_CreateEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingSearchPath, Tcl_SetEncodingSearchPath \- procedures for creating and using encodings
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
@@ -36,12 +36,6 @@ 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
@@ -62,12 +56,6 @@ Tcl_Obj *
.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
@@ -85,11 +73,11 @@ 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
+\fBTcl_UtfToExternal\fR function, 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
+.AP size_t 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
@@ -255,18 +243,6 @@ 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. Those functions are deprecated. You can use
-\fBTcl_UtfToWCharDString\fR resp. \fBTcl_WCharToUtfDString\fR as replacement.
-If you want compatibility with earlier Tcl releases than 8.7, use
-\fBTcl_UtfToUniCharDString\fR resp. \fBTcl_UniCharToUtfDString\fR as
-replacement, and make sure you compile your extension with -DTCL_UTF_MAX=3.
-Beware: Those replacement functions don't initialize their Tcl_DString (you'll
-have to do that yourself), and \fBTcl_UniCharToUtfDString\fR from Tcl 8.6
-doesn't accept -1 as length parameter.
-.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
@@ -293,7 +269,7 @@ the encoding name to it. The \fBTcl_DStringValue\fR is returned.
\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
+\fBTcl_SetEncodingSearchPath\fR. This procedure does not ensure that the
dynamically-loadable encoding files contain valid data, but merely that they
exist.
.PP
@@ -320,7 +296,7 @@ typedef struct Tcl_EncodingType {
Tcl_EncodingConvertProc *\fItoUtfProc\fR;
Tcl_EncodingConvertProc *\fIfromUtfProc\fR;
Tcl_EncodingFreeProc *\fIfreeProc\fR;
- ClientData \fIclientData\fR;
+ void *\fIclientData\fR;
int \fInullSize\fR;
} \fBTcl_EncodingType\fR;
.CE
@@ -351,7 +327,7 @@ type \fBTcl_EncodingConvertProc\fR:
.PP
.CS
typedef int \fBTcl_EncodingConvertProc\fR(
- ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
+ void *\fIclientData\fR,
const char *\fIsrc\fR,
int \fIsrcLen\fR,
int \fIflags\fR,
@@ -383,7 +359,7 @@ The callback procedure \fIfreeProc\fR, if non-NULL, should match the type
.PP
.CS
typedef void \fBTcl_EncodingFreeProc\fR(
- ClientData \fIclientData\fR);
+ void *\fIclientData\fR);
.CE
.PP
This \fIfreeProc\fR function is called when the encoding is deleted. The
@@ -408,15 +384,6 @@ 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