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char-ready? is broken for multibyte encodings

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Message #26 received at 10627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
Cc: 10627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10627: char-ready? is broken for multibyte encodings
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:50:43 -0500

Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com> writes:
> Are you proposing that `char-ready?' do a nonblocking read if
> the buffer is empty?  That could work.

Yes.  I suspect that something along these lines is already implemented,
because I don't see how 'u8-ready?' could work properly without it.

> Do what you like to do :)  But if it were my time, I would simply
> document that it checks for a byte and not a character and move on.

I'd like to fix it properly.  Let's keep this bug open until it's done.

     Thanks,
       Mark

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