GNU bug report logs - #10627
char-ready? is broken for multibyte encodings

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>

Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 10627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: 10627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10627: char-ready? is broken for multibyte encodings
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:59:25 +0100

On Tue 26 Feb 2013 20:50, Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:

> 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.

It does a poll with a timeout of 0.

Andy
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