Released
[http://sf.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/8.5.12/tcltk-release-notes-8.5.12.txt/view]
July 27, 2012

**Tcl Changes**
***Changed Tcl behavior***
   * Character/codepoint values from Unicode 6.1.
   * [source] accepts a leading BOM.
   * [exec]: the '''<<''' redirection is now binary safe.
   * [dict exists] returns 0, not error, on invalid dict argument.
   * Index values from '''[switch] -regexp -indexvar''' are now consistent with '''[regexp] -indices'''.

'''Updated packages'''
   * [dde] 1.3.3
   * [http] 2.7.9
   * [msgcat] 1.4.5
   * [registry] 1.2.2
   * [tcltest] 2.3.4

**Tk Changes**
***Changed Tk behavior***
   * Revised interpretation of numeric color values when < 48 bits are specified.

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