The PyFPE_START_PROTECT() and PyFPE_END_PROTECT() macros are empty:
they have been doing nothing for the last year  (since commit
735ae8d139a673b30b321dc10acfd3d14f0d633b), so stop using them.

https://bugs.python.org/issue38823

On Windows use UTF-16 (or UTF-32 for 32-bit Tcl_UniChar) with the
"surrogatepass" error handler for converting to/from Tcl Unicode objects.

On Linux use UTF-8 with the "surrogateescape" error handler for converting
to/from Tcl String objects.

Converting strings from Tcl to Python and back now never fails
(except MemoryError).

In ArgumentClinic, value "NULL" should now be used only for unrepresentable default values
(like in the optional third parameter of getattr). "None" should be used if None is accepted
as argument and passing None has the same effect as not passing the argument at all.

Add a new public PyObject_CallNoArgs() function to the C API: call a
callable Python object without any arguments.

It is the most efficient way to call a callback without any argument.
On x86-64, for example, PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(func, NULL)
allocates 960 bytes on the stack per call, whereas
PyObject_CallNoArgs(func) only allocates 624 bytes per call.

It is excluded from stable ABI 3.8.

Replace private _PyObject_CallNoArg() with public
PyObject_CallNoArgs() in C extensions: _asyncio, _datetime,
_elementtree, _pickle, _tkinter and readline.

* Incref heap-allocated types in PyObject_Init
* Add documentation and porting notes to What's New

Fix also return type for few other functions (clear, releasebuffer).

Based on the investigation by Xiang Zhang.