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

[Charles Heywood <vandor2012@...>]

No, because a valid UTF-8 sequence can be invalidated multiple bytes in.

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 8:46 AM Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> "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?

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