Re: Patch for pl/tcl Tcl_ExternalToUtf and Tcl_UtfToExternal support

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> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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> > 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
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> Really - yes.
> I can make this automatic based on tcl version if performance penalty on
> tcl>=8.3 is acceptable.

It is my understanding that the UTF penalty applies to all the TCL
versions >= 8.1 and that there is debate whether this is a good idea or
not.   However, seeing as TCL has the penalty, I don't see a problem
with having the same penalty in our code.

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