Re: Patch for pl/tcl Tcl_ExternalToUtf and Tcl_UtfToExternal support

Vsevolod Lobko writes:

> > Is there a way to make this automatically enabled based on the TCL
> > version?  Does that make sense?
>
> This adds significant overhead to pl/tcl calls :((
> so I'm not sure that anybody want this functionality enabled by default

It is my understanding that Tcl 8.3 will not work with 8 bit characters
without this functionality.  That would simply be unacceptable.  If users
want better performance they should use a different Tcl version, but we
should not override Tcl's design decisions unilaterally.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter