Re: Feature request: "u" option to file:read

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> "u": reads one or more bytes forming one UTF-8 character, and returns
> that character as a string. Returns nil if the file at the current
> position does not start with a valid UTF-8 sequence.

Can this be done without having to unget more than one byte from the stream?