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diff --git a/doc/Encoding.3 b/doc/Encoding.3 index f18ea47..85f7600 100644 --- a/doc/Encoding.3 +++ b/doc/Encoding.3 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: Encoding.3,v 1.25 2006/10/18 18:46:59 dgp Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: Encoding.3,v 1.26 2007/10/24 14:29:37 dkf Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH Tcl_GetEncoding 3 "8.1" Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures" @@ -457,8 +457,9 @@ 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 ``default'' directory in which -to find encoding data files. +list order, these routines establish the +.QW default +directory in which to find encoding data files. .VE 8.5 .SH "ENCODING FILES" Space would prohibit precompiling into Tcl every possible encoding @@ -471,7 +472,9 @@ 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 ``#'' symbol, is a comment +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: @@ -584,8 +587,11 @@ 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, ``\fB{}\fR'' represents the empty string and -``\fB\\x1b\fR'' represents character 27. +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 |