Unicode/UTF-8 support appeared in Tcl/Tk 8.1, which came out in April 1999, i.e., nearly 15 years ago. It is worth noting that Unicode in Tcl worked quite well pretty much from the point when it was ...

A bytearray is really an ASCII string, but there are some small but important differences between them and Unicode strings. The first thing is that, while you can uses indexing and slicing, a single ...

Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...

Tcl represents all strings (as opposed to »byte arrays«) as UTF-8 internally. I/O channels can be set up with other encodings such that data read from them is converted from that encoding to UTF-8, or ...