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@@ -165,8 +165,8 @@ million, allowing buffers of up to one million bytes in size.
\fB\-encoding\fR \fIname\fR
.
This option is used to specify the encoding of the channel as one of
-the named encodings returned by \fBencoding names\fR or the special
-value \fBbinary\fR, so that the data can be converted to and from
+the named encodings returned by \fBencoding names\fR, so that the
+data can be converted to and from
Unicode for use in Tcl. For instance, in order for Tcl to read
characters from a Japanese file in \fBshiftjis\fR and properly process
and display the contents, the encoding would be set to \fBshiftjis\fR.
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ automatically be converted to the specified encoding on output.
.RS
.PP
If a file contains pure binary data (for instance, a JPEG image), the
-encoding for the channel should be configured to be \fBbinary\fR. Tcl
+encoding for the channel should be configured to be \fBiso8859-1\fR. Tcl
will then assign no interpretation to the data in the file and simply
read or write raw bytes. The Tcl \fBbinary\fR command can be used to
manipulate this byte-oriented data. It is usually better to set the