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From: Uwe Schmitz <schmitzu@mail.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Tcl9: source files are interpreted as utf-8 by default
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:02:51 +0100
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Folks,

is it possible in Tcl9 to get the old (8.x) behaviour back,
that tcl files are read with system encoding instead of
utf-8?
Is there e.g. an environment variable or a configure
switch to change this?

I found:

--with-encoding         encoding for configuration values (default: utf-8)

but, what is meant with "configuration values"?

I've the problem that almost all of my sources contain some
umlauts and are, for legacy reasons, in iso8859-1. If it's
not possible to get the old behavior back, I have to
edit every pkgIndex.tcl and every tclsh <script> call
before I'm able to migrate.

Thanks in advance
Uwe