[cynwoody]

My guess is the choice of character encoding has changed?

There is one and only one true character encoding. That is UTF-8.

But it must be observed end-to-end, religiously.

[Gene Eric]

>> There is one and only one true character encoding. That is UTF-8.

Agreed. TCL adopted it early on, and therefore UTF-8 is truth!

But it’s worth pointing out that UTF-8 isn’t necessarily obvious within the byte data excluding the BOM. UTF-16/32 is less ambiguous. But another nice thing about UTF-8 is its intrinsic byte-order independence.