Re: Improving i18n support (Was: Re: Christmas


Donal K. Fellows wrote:
Larry W. Virden wrote:
Donal and Richard, any thoughts on additions to Tcl as shipped to
improve the internationalization and Unicode support within core Tcl?

Tcl's UNICODE support is
excellent; the only time it is surprising to people is when they try to
apply the odd workarounds used in other languages and have to to learn
that Tcl gets it right for them already.

The most surprising thing to me, as a developer, is that I'm expected
to use obscure binary/octal/hex codes when attempting to write unicode
strings . That seems so... archaic.

I mean, what if we had to code

set a "\b00100000"
instead of
set a " "

Sigh.

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