Notes from Tcl/Tk 1997, Boston

WIPs and BOFs

Colin Stevens, Sun i18n (cstevens@eng.sun.com). There will be a new \f(CW\euxxxx syntax for byte-order-independent Unicode data. Hooks for move to 32-bit characters, if ever necessary. Planned for 8.1.

Talked briefly to a Motorola guy who's doing a control panel for the Iridium satellite network.

WIP by Kevin Kenny, who's just finishing a complete reimplementation of NBC's master network control room.

BOF on extension packaging. Urgent need for an easier installer, like some of the Perl stuff. John says converting the docs to HTML is being thought about, but it has complications, notably the fact that people often can't print HTML pages prettily.

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