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Tcl_GetEncoding

Tcl_GetEncoding(3)          Tcl Library Procedures          Tcl_GetEncoding(3)



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NAME
       Tcl_GetEncoding,       Tcl_FreeEncoding,      Tcl_ExternalToUtfDString,
       Tcl_ExternalToUtf,     Tcl_UtfToExternalDString,     Tcl_UtfToExternal,
       Tcl_WinTCharToUtf,  Tcl_WinUtfToTChar, Tcl_GetEncodingName, Tcl_SetSys-
       temEncoding, Tcl_GetEncodingNames, Tcl_CreateEncoding,  Tcl_GetDefault-
       EncodingDir,  Tcl_SetDefaultEncodingDir  -  procedures for creating and
       using encodings.

SYNOPSIS
       #include <tcl.h>
       #include <tclPlatDecls.h> /* Tcl_Win* functions only */

       Tcl_Encoding
       Tcl_GetEncoding(interp, name)

       void
       Tcl_FreeEncoding(encoding)

       char *
       Tcl_ExternalToUtfDString(encoding, src, srcLen, dstPtr)

       int
       Tcl_ExternalToUtf(interp, encoding, src, srcLen, flags, statePtr, dst, dstLen, srcReadPtr, dstWrotePtr,
            dstCharsPtr)

       char *
       Tcl_UtfToExternalDString(encoding, src, srcLen, dstPtr)

       int
       Tcl_UtfToExternal(interp, encoding, src, srcLen, flags, statePtr, dst, dstLen, srcReadPtr, dstWrotePtr,
            dstCharsPtr)

       char *
       Tcl_WinTCharToUtf(tsrc, srcLen, dstPtr)

       TCHAR *
       Tcl_WinUtfToTChar(src, srcLen, dstPtr)

       char *
       Tcl_GetEncodingName(encoding)

       int
       Tcl_SetSystemEncoding(interp, name)

       void
       Tcl_GetEncodingNames(interp)

       Tcl_Encoding
       Tcl_CreateEncoding(typePtr)

       char *
       Tcl_GetDefaultEncodingDir(void)

       void
       Tcl_SetDefaultEncodingDir(path)



ARGUMENTS
       Tcl_Interp          *interp        (in)      Interpreter  to  use   for
                                                    error  reporting,  or NULL
                                                    if no error  reporting  is
                                                    desired.

       CONST char          *name          (in)      Name  of encoding to load.

       Tcl_Encoding        encoding       (in)      The  encoding  to   query,
                                                    free,  or use for convert-
                                                    ing text.  If encoding  is
                                                    NULL,  the  current system
                                                    encoding is used.

       CONST char          *src           (in)      For the  Tcl_ExternalToUtf
                                                    functions,   an  array  of
                                                    bytes  in  the   specified
                                                    encoding  that  are  to be
                                                    converted to  UTF-8.   For
                                                    the  Tcl_UtfToExternal and
                                                    Tcl_WinUtfToTChar    func-
                                                    tions,  an  array of UTF-8
                                                    characters to be converted
                                                    to the specified encoding.

       CONST TCHAR         *tsrc          (in)      An array of Windows  TCHAR
                                                    characters  to  convert to
                                                    UTF-8.

       int                 srcLen         (in)      Length of src or  tsrc  in
                                                    bytes.   If  the length is
                                                    negative,  the   encoding-
                                                    specific   length  of  the
                                                    string is used.

       Tcl_DString         *dstPtr        (out)     Pointer to  an  uninitial-
                                                    ized  or  free Tcl_DString
                                                    in  which  the   converted
                                                    result will be stored.

       int                 flags          (in)      Various  flag  bits  OR-ed
                                                    together.       TCL_ENCOD-
                                                    ING_START  signifies  that
                                                    the source buffer  is  the
                                                    first  block  in a (poten-
                                                    tially multi-block)  input
                                                    stream,  telling  the con-
                                                    version routine  to  reset
                                                    to  an  initial  state and
                                                    perform any initialization
                                                    that needs to occur before
                                                    the  first  byte  is  con-
                                                    verted.   TCL_ENCODING_END
                                                    signifies that the  source
                                                    buffer  is  the last block
                                                    in a  (potentially  multi-
                                                    block)    input    stream,
                                                    telling   the   conversion
                                                    routine   to  perform  any
                                                    finalization that needs to
                                                    occur  after the last byte
                                                    is converted and  then  to
                                                    reset to an initial state.
                                                    TCL_ENCODING_STOPONERROR
                                                    signifies that the conver-
                                                    sion routine should return
                                                    immediately upon reading a
                                                    source   character    that
                                                    doesn't  exist in the tar-
                                                    get encoding; otherwise  a
                                                    default fallback character
                                                    will automatically be sub-
                                                    stituted.

       Tcl_EncodingState   *statePtr      (in/out)  Used   when  converting  a
                                                    (generally long or indefi-
                                                    nite  length)  byte stream
                                                    in a piece by piece  fash-
                                                    ion.   The conversion rou-
                                                    tine  stores  its  current
                                                    state  in  *statePtr after
                                                    src (the buffer containing
                                                    the   current  piece)  has
                                                    been converted; that state
                                                    information must be passed
                                                    back when  converting  the
                                                    next  piece  of the stream
                                                    so the conversion  routine
                                                    knows what state it was in
                                                    when it left  off  at  the
                                                    end  of  the  last  piece.
                                                    May be NULL, in which case
                                                    the  value  specified  for
                                                    flags is ignored  and  the
                                                    source  buffer  is assumed
                                                    to  contain  the  complete
                                                    string to convert.

       char                *dst           (out)     Buffer  in  which the con-
                                                    verted  result   will   be
                                                    stored.    No   more  than
                                                    dstLen   bytes   will   be
                                                    stored in dst.

       int                 dstLen         (in)      The  maximum length of the
                                                    output   buffer   dst   in
                                                    bytes.

       int                 *srcReadPtr    (out)     Filled  with the number of
                                                    bytes from src  that  were
                                                    actually  converted.  This
                                                    may be less than the orig-
                                                    inal   source   length  if
                                                    there was a  problem  con-
                                                    verting  some source char-
                                                    acters.  May be NULL.

       int                 *dstWrotePtr   (out)     Filled with the number  of
                                                    bytes  that  were actually
                                                    stored   in   the   output
                                                    buffer  as a result of the
                                                    conversion.  May be  NULL.

       int                 *dstCharsPtr   (out)     Filled  with the number of
                                                    characters that correspond
                                                    to  the  number  of  bytes
                                                    stored   in   the   output
                                                    buffer.  May be NULL.

       Tcl_EncodingType    *typePtr       (in)      Structure  that  defines a
                                                    new type of encoding.

       char                *path          (in)      A path to the location  of
                                                    the encoding file.
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INTRODUCTION
       These routines convert between Tcl's internal character representation,
       UTF-8, and character representations used by various operating  systems
       or  file systems, such as Unicode, ASCII, or Shift-JIS.  When operating
       on strings, such as such as obtaining the names of files or  displaying
       characters  using  international  fonts, the strings must be translated
       into one or possibly multiple formats that the various system calls can
       use.  For instance, on a Japanese Unix workstation, a user might obtain
       a filename represented in the EUC-JP file encoding and  then  translate
       the  characters  to  the jisx0208 font encoding in order to display the
       filename in a Tk widget.  The purpose of the  encoding  package  is  to
       help  bridge the translation gap.  UTF-8 provides an intermediate stag-
       ing ground for all the various encodings.  In the example  above,  text
       would  be translated into UTF-8 from whatever file encoding the operat-
       ing system is using.  Then it would be translated from UTF-8 into what-
       ever font encoding the display routines require.

       Some  basic  encodings are compiled into Tcl.  Others can be defined by
       the user or dynamically loaded from encoding files in a  platform-inde-
       pendent manner.

DESCRIPTION
       Tcl_GetEncoding  finds  an encoding given its name.  The name may refer
       to a builtin Tcl encoding, a user-defined encoding registered by  call-
       ing  Tcl_CreateEncoding,  or a dynamically-loadable encoding file.  The
       return value is a token that represents the encoding and can be used in
       subsequent calls to procedures such as Tcl_GetEncodingName, Tcl_FreeEn-
       coding, and Tcl_UtfToExternal.  If the name did not refer to any  known
       or loadable encoding, NULL is returned and an error message is returned
       in interp.

       The encoding package maintains a database of all encodings currently in
       use.   The first time name is seen, Tcl_GetEncoding returns an encoding
       with a reference count of 1.  If the same  name  is  requested  further
       times,  then the reference count for that encoding is incremented with-
       out the overhead of allocating a new encoding and  all  its  associated
       data structures.

       When an encoding is no longer needed, Tcl_FreeEncoding should be called
       to release it.  When an encoding is no longer in use anywhere (i.e., it
       has  been  freed  as many times as it has been gotten) Tcl_FreeEncoding
       will release all storage the encoding was using and delete it from  the
       database.

       Tcl_ExternalToUtfDString  converts  a source buffer src from the speci-
       fied encoding into UTF-8.  The converted bytes are  stored  in  dstPtr,
       which  is  then  NULL  terminated.   The  caller should eventually call
       Tcl_DStringFree to free any information stored in  dstPtr.   When  con-
       verting, if any of the characters in the source buffer cannot be repre-
       sented in the target encoding, a default  fallback  character  will  be
       used.   The  return  value  is  a  pointer  to  the value stored in the
       DString.

       Tcl_ExternalToUtf converts a  source  buffer  src  from  the  specified
       encoding  into UTF-8.  Up to srcLen bytes are converted from the source
       buffer and up to dstLen converted bytes are  stored  in  dst.   In  all
       cases,  *srcReadPtr  is  filled with the number of bytes that were suc-
       cessfully converted from src and *dstWrotePtr is filled with the corre-
       sponding  number of bytes that were stored in dst.  The return value is
       one of the following:

              TCL_OK                       All bytes of src were converted.

              TCL_CONVERT_NOSPACE          The  destination  buffer  was   not
                                           large  enough  for  all of the con-
                                           verted data; as many characters  as
                                           could fit were converted though.

              TCL_CONVERT_MULTIBYTE        The  last  fews bytes in the source
                                           buffer  were  the  beginning  of  a
                                           multibyte  sequence, but more bytes
                                           were  needed   to   complete   this
                                           sequence.  A subsequent call to the
                                           conversion routine  should  pass  a
                                           buffer  containing  the unconverted
                                           bytes that  remained  in  src  plus
                                           some  further bytes from the source
                                           stream to properly convert the for-
                                           merly  split-up multibyte sequence.

              TCL_CONVERT_SYNTAX           The  source  buffer  contained   an
                                           invalid  character  sequence.  This
                                           may occur if the input  stream  has
                                           been damaged or if the input encod-
                                           ing method was misidentified.

              TCL_CONVERT_UNKNOWN          The source buffer contained a char-
                                           acter that could not be represented
                                           in   the   target   encoding    and
                                           TCL_ENCODING_STOPONERROR was speci-
                                           fied.

       Tcl_UtfToExternalDString converts a source buffer src from  UTF-8  into
       the  specified  encoding.   The  converted  bytes are stored in dstPtr,
       which is then terminated with the appropriate  encoding-specific  NULL.
       The  caller should eventually call Tcl_DStringFree to free any informa-
       tion stored in dstPtr.  When converting, if any of  the  characters  in
       the  source  buffer  cannot  be  represented  in the target encoding, a
       default fallback character will be used.  The return value is a pointer
       to the value stored in the DString.

       Tcl_UtfToExternal  converts  a  source  buffer  src from UTF-8 into the
       specified encoding.  Up to srcLen bytes are converted from  the  source
       buffer  and  up  to  dstLen  converted bytes are stored in dst.  In all
       cases, *srcReadPtr is filled with the number of bytes  that  were  suc-
       cessfully converted from src and *dstWrotePtr is filled with the corre-
       sponding number of bytes that were stored in dst.   The  return  values
       are the same as the return values for Tcl_ExternalToUtf.

       Tcl_WinUtfToTChar  and  Tcl_WinTCharToUtf  are Windows-only convenience
       functions for converting between UTF-8 and Windows strings.  On Windows
       95  (as  with  the  Macintosh  and Unix operating systems), all strings
       exchanged between Tcl and the operating system are  "char"  based.   On
       Windows NT, some strings exchanged between Tcl and the operating system
       are "char" oriented while others are in  Unicode.   By  convention,  in
       Windows  a TCHAR is a character in the ANSI code page on Windows 95 and
       a Unicode character on Windows NT.

       If you planned to use the same "char" based interfaces on both  Windows
       95    and   Windows   NT,   you   could   use   Tcl_UtfToExternal   and
       Tcl_ExternalToUtf (or their Tcl_DString equivalents) with  an  encoding
       of  NULL  (the  current  system  encoding).   On the other hand, if you
       planned to use the Unicode interface when running on Windows NT and the
       "char" interfaces when running on Windows 95, you would have to perform
       the following type of test over and over in  your  program  (as  repre-
       sented in psuedo-code):
              if (running NT) {
                  encoding <- Tcl_GetEncoding("unicode");
                  nativeBuffer <- Tcl_UtfToExternal(encoding, utfBuffer);
                  Tcl_FreeEncoding(encoding);
              } else {
                  nativeBuffer <- Tcl_UtfToExternal(NULL, utfBuffer);
       Tcl_WinUtfToTChar  and Tcl_WinTCharToUtf automatically handle this test
       and use the proper encoding based  on  the  current  operating  system.
       Tcl_WinUtfToTChar   returns   a   pointer   to   a  TCHAR  string,  and
       Tcl_WinTCharToUtf expects a TCHAR string pointer  as  the  src  string.
       Otherwise,  these  functions  behave identically to Tcl_UtfToExternalD-
       String and Tcl_ExternalToUtfDString.

       Tcl_GetEncodingName is roughly the inverse of  Tcl_GetEncoding.   Given
       an  encoding,  the  return  value is the name argument that was used to
       create the encoding.  The string  returned  by  Tcl_GetEncodingName  is
       only  guaranteed  to persist until the encoding is deleted.  The caller
       must not modify this string.

       Tcl_SetSystemEncoding sets the default encoding  that  should  be  used
       whenever  the user passes a NULL value for the encoding argument to any
       of the other encoding functions.  If name is NULL, the system  encoding
       is  reset  to the default system encoding, binary.  If the name did not
       refer to any known or loadable encoding, TCL_ERROR is returned  and  an
       error  message is left in interp.  Otherwise, this procedure increments
       the reference count of the new system encoding, decrements  the  refer-
       ence count of the old system encoding, and returns TCL_OK.

       Tcl_GetEncodingNames sets the interp result to a list consisting of the
       names of all the encodings that are currently defined or can be dynami-
       cally  loaded, searching the encoding path specified by Tcl_SetDefault-
       EncodingDir.  This procedure does not ensure that the dynamically-load-
       able encoding files contain valid data, but merely that they exist.

       Tcl_CreateEncoding  defines  a  new encoding and registers the C proce-
       dures that are called back to convert between the encoding  and  UTF-8.
       Encodings  created  by Tcl_CreateEncoding are thereafter visible in the
       database used by Tcl_GetEncoding.  Just  as  with  the  Tcl_GetEncoding
       procedure, the return value is a token that represents the encoding and
       can be used in subsequent calls to other encoding functions.   Tcl_Cre-
       ateEncoding  returns  an  encoding  with  a reference count of 1. If an
       encoding with the specified name already exists, then its entry in  the
       database  is  replaced  with  the  new  encoding; the token for the old
       encoding will remain valid and continue to behave as before, but  users
       of the new token will now call the new encoding procedures.

       The  typePtr  argument to Tcl_CreateEncoding contains information about
       the name of the encoding and the procedures that will be called to con-
       vert between this encoding and UTF-8.  It is defined as follows:

              typedef struct Tcl_EncodingType {
                CONST char *encodingName;
                Tcl_EncodingConvertProc *toUtfProc;
                Tcl_EncodingConvertProc *fromUtfProc;
                Tcl_EncodingFreeProc *freeProc;
                ClientData clientData;
                int nullSize;
              } Tcl_EncodingType;

       The  encodingName  provides a string name for the encoding, by which it
       can be referred in  other  procedures  such  as  Tcl_GetEncoding.   The
       toUtfProc refers to a callback procedure to invoke to convert text from
       this encoding into UTF-8.  The fromUtfProc refers to a callback  proce-
       dure  to  invoke  to  convert  text from UTF-8 into this encoding.  The
       freeProc refers to a callback procedure to invoke when this encoding is
       deleted.   The  freeProc field may be NULL.  The clientData contains an
       arbitrary one-word value passed to toUtfProc, fromUtfProc, and freeProc
       whenever  they  are  called.   Typically,  this  is a pointer to a data
       structure containing encoding-specific information that can be used  by
       the callback procedures.  For instance, two very similar encodings such
       as ascii and macRoman may use the same callback procedure, but use dif-
       ferent  values  of  clientData  to  control its behavior.  The nullSize
       specifies the number of zero bytes that signify end-of-string  in  this
       encoding.   It  must be 1 (for single-byte or multi-byte encodings like
       ASCII or Shift-JIS) or 2  (for  double-byte  encodings  like  Unicode).
       Constant-sized  encodings  with  3 or more bytes per character (such as
       CNS11643) are not accepted.

       The callback procedures toUtfProc and fromUtfProc should match the type
       Tcl_EncodingConvertProc:

              typedef int Tcl_EncodingConvertProc(
                ClientData clientData,
                CONST char *src,
                int srcLen,
                int flags,
                Tcl_Encoding *statePtr,
                char *dst,
                int dstLen,
                int *srcReadPtr,
                int *dstWrotePtr,
                int *dstCharsPtr);

       The   toUtfProc   and   fromUtfProc   procedures   are  called  by  the
       Tcl_ExternalToUtf or Tcl_UtfToExternal family of functions  to  perform
       the actual conversion.  The clientData parameter to these procedures is
       the same as the clientData field specified to  Tcl_CreateEncoding  when
       the encoding was created.  The remaining arguments to the callback pro-
       cedures are the same as  the  arguments,  documented  at  the  top,  to
       Tcl_ExternalToUtf  or Tcl_UtfToExternal, with the following exceptions.
       If the srcLen argument to one of those high-level  functions  is  nega-
       tive,  the value passed to the callback procedure will be the appropri-
       ate encoding-specific string length of src.  If any of the  srcReadPtr,
       dstWrotePtr,  or  dstCharsPtr  arguments to one of the high-level func-
       tions is NULL, the corresponding value passed to the callback procedure
       will be a non-NULL location.

       The  callback  procedure  freeProc,  if non-NULL, should match the type
       Tcl_EncodingFreeProc:
              typedef void Tcl_EncodingFreeProc(
                ClientData clientData);

       This freeProc function is called when the  encoding  is  deleted.   The
       clientData  parameter  is the same as the clientData field specified to
       Tcl_CreateEncoding when the encoding was created.


       Tcl_GetDefaultEncodingDir and Tcl_SetDefaultEncodingDir access and  set
       the directory to use when locating the default encoding files.  If this
       value is not NULL, the TclpInitLibraryPath routine appends the path  to
       the  head  of the search path, and uses this path as the first place to
       look into when trying to locate the encoding file.


ENCODING FILES
       Space would prohibit precompiling  into  Tcl  every  possible  encoding
       algorithm, so many encodings are stored on disk as dynamically-loadable
       encoding files.  This behavior also allows the  user  to  create  addi-
       tional  encoding  files  that  can  be loaded using the same mechanism.
       These encoding files contain information about the tables and/or escape
       sequences  used  to  map between an external encoding and Unicode.  The
       external encoding may consist of single-byte,  multi-byte,  or  double-
       byte characters.

       Each  dynamically-loadable encoding is represented as a text file.  The
       initial line of the file, beginning with a ``#'' 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:

       [1]   S
              A  single-byte  encoding, where one character is always one byte
              long in the encoding.  An example is  iso8859-1,  used  by  many
              European languages.

       [2]   D
              A  double-byte encoding, where one character is always two bytes
              long in the encoding.  An example  is  big5,  used  for  Chinese
              text.

       [3]   M
              A  multi-byte encoding, where one character may be either one or
              two bytes long.  Certain bytes are a lead bytes, indicating that
              another  byte must follow and that together the two bytes repre-
              sent one character.  Other bytes are not lead bytes  and  repre-
              sent  themselves.  An example is shiftjis, used by many Japanese
              computers.

       [4]   E
              An escape-sequence encoding, specifying that  certain  sequences
              of bytes do not represent characters, but commands that describe
              how following bytes should be interpreted.

       The rest of the lines in the file depend on the type.

       Cases [1], [2], and [3] are collectively  referred  to  as  table-based
       encoding  files.   The  lines in a table-based encoding file are in the
       same format as this example taken from the shiftjis encoding  (this  is
       not the complete file):
              # Encoding file: shiftjis, multi-byte
              M
              003F 0 40
              00
              0000000100020003000400050006000700080009000A000B000C000D000E000F
              0010001100120013001400150016001700180019001A001B001C001D001E001F
              0020002100220023002400250026002700280029002A002B002C002D002E002F
              0030003100320033003400350036003700380039003A003B003C003D003E003F
              0040004100420043004400450046004700480049004A004B004C004D004E004F
              0050005100520053005400550056005700580059005A005B005C005D005E005F
              0060006100620063006400650066006700680069006A006B006C006D006E006F
              0070007100720073007400750076007700780079007A007B007C007D203E007F
              0080000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
              0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
              0000FF61FF62FF63FF64FF65FF66FF67FF68FF69FF6AFF6BFF6CFF6DFF6EFF6F
              FF70FF71FF72FF73FF74FF75FF76FF77FF78FF79FF7AFF7BFF7CFF7DFF7EFF7F
              FF80FF81FF82FF83FF84FF85FF86FF87FF88FF89FF8AFF8BFF8CFF8DFF8EFF8F
              FF90FF91FF92FF93FF94FF95FF96FF97FF98FF99FF9AFF9BFF9CFF9DFF9EFF9F
              0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
              0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
              81
              0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
              0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
              0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
              0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
              300030013002FF0CFF0E30FBFF1AFF1BFF1FFF01309B309C00B4FF4000A8FF3E
              FFE3FF3F30FD30FE309D309E30034EDD30053006300730FC20152010FF0F005C
              301C2016FF5C2026202520182019201C201DFF08FF0930143015FF3BFF3DFF5B
              FF5D30083009300A300B300C300D300E300F30103011FF0B221200B100D70000
              00F7FF1D2260FF1CFF1E22662267221E22342642264000B0203220332103FFE5
              FF0400A200A3FF05FF03FF06FF0AFF2000A72606260525CB25CF25CE25C725C6
              25A125A025B325B225BD25BC203B301221922190219121933013000000000000
              000000000000000000000000000000002208220B2286228722822283222A2229
              000000000000000000000000000000002227222800AC21D221D4220022030000
              0000000000000000000000000000000000000000222022A52312220222072261
              2252226A226B221A223D221D2235222B222C0000000000000000000000000000
              212B2030266F266D266A2020202100B6000000000000000025EF000000000000

       The  third  line of the file is three numbers.  The first number is the
       fallback character (in base 16) to use when converting  from  UTF-8  to
       this  encoding.   The  second number is a 1 if this file represents the
       encoding for a symbol font, or 0 otherwise.  The last number  (in  base
       10) is how many pages of data follow.

       Subsequent  lines  in  the example above are pages that describe how to
       map from the encoding into 2-byte Unicode.  The first line  in  a  page
       identifies  the page number.  Following it are 256 double-byte numbers,
       arranged as 16 rows of 16 numbers.  Given a character in the  encoding,
       the  high  byte of that character is used to select which page, and the
       low byte of that character is used as an index to  select  one  of  the
       double-byte  numbers in that page - the value obtained being the corre-
       sponding Unicode character.  By examination of the example  above,  one
       can see that the characters 0x7E and 0x8163 in shiftjis map to 203E and
       2026 in Unicode, respectively.

       Following the first page will be all the other pages, each in the  same
       format  as  the  first: one number identifying the page followed by 256
       double-byte Unicode characters.  If a character in the encoding maps to
       the  Unicode  character 0000, it means that the character doesn't actu-
       ally exist.  If all characters on a page would map to 0000,  that  page
       can be omitted.

       Case  [4]  is  the escape-sequence encoding file.  The lines in an this
       type of file are in the same format as  this  example  taken  from  the
       iso2022-jp encoding:
              # Encoding file: iso2022-jp, escape-driven
              E
              init           {}
              final          {}
              iso8859-1      \x1b(B
              jis0201        \x1b(J
              jis0208        \x1b$@
              jis0208        \x1b$B
              jis0212        \x1b$(D
              gb2312         \x1b$A
              ksc5601        \x1b$(C

       In  the file, the first column represents an option and the second col-
       umn is the associated value.  init is a string to emit or expect before
       the  first  character  is converted, while final 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  exam-
       ple, for instance, ``{}'' represents the empty string and ``\x1b'' rep-
       resents character 27.

       When Tcl_GetEncoding encounters an encoding  name  that  has  not  been
       loaded,  it  attempts to load an encoding file called name.enc from the
       encoding subdirectory of each directory specified in the  library  path
       $tcl_libPath.   If the encoding file exists, but is malformed, an error
       message will be left in interp.

KEYWORDS
       utf, encoding, convert






Tcl                                   8.1                   Tcl_GetEncoding(3)