Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> But if the config switch was removed, Tcls prior 8.1 would not be
> supported at all, no?
No, Peter wasn't proposing removing #if's from the code. His thought
is that the #if's should be conditional only on Tcl version --- if you
have a Tcl version that does UTF, then you get the translation code.
Of course, there are some issues here about compiling against a
different set of Tcl headers than you later run against, but I think
you could get burnt by that anyway.
regards, tom lane