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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>

       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  buf‐
						    fer	 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 buf‐
						    fer.  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

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