Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.navpoint.com [162.33.245.46]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6IGMLa34460 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:22:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f6IGMEM15114; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:22:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200107181622.f6IGMEM15114@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: libpgtcl doesn't use UTF encoding of TCL In-Reply-To: "from Reinhard Max at Jul 18, 2001 06:14:59 pm" To: Reinhard Max Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:22:14 -0400 (EDT) CC: elf@solvo.ru, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL90 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archive-Number: 200107/85 X-Sequence-Number: 1867 > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Do you have any idea how this will work with earlier TCL versions? > > It won't. If pgtcl is supposed to still be able to compile with older > versions of Tcl, the changes have to be made a compile time option. Can't we probe the TCL version in the code and handle it that way? > > When was Tcl_UtfToExternalDString added to TCL? > > According to Tcl's changelog files, it was added in 1997 for Tcl 8.1 > wich was released in 1999. Shame. I think we could have required Tcl 8.X but clearly we can't be requring >= 8.1. I have 8.0 here and I am sure many do as well. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026