@@ -97,14 +97,16 @@
 			unset -nocomplain ::tclkit_system_encoding
 		}
 
 		# If we've still not been able to set the encoding, revert to Tclkit defaults
 		if {[encoding system] eq "identity"} {
-			switch $::tcl_platform(platform) {
-				windows		{ encoding system cp1252 }
-				macintosh	{ encoding system macRoman }
-			        default		{ encoding system iso8859-1 }
+			catch {
+				switch $::tcl_platform(platform) {
+					windows		{ encoding system cp1252 }
+					macintosh	{ encoding system macRoman }
+				        default		{ encoding system iso8859-1 }
+				}
 			}
 		}
 
 		# now remount the executable with the correct encoding
 		vfs::filesystem unmount [lindex [::vfs::filesystem info] 0]