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30.0.50; [wishlist] Expose UTF-8 parse error to Lisp

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: 70356 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de
Subject: bug#70356: 30.0.50; [wishlist] Expose UTF-8 parse error to Lisp
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 09:41:52 +0200

On Apr 13 2024, Michael Albinus via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" wrote:

> What I'd like to get is a function, which takes a sequence of bytes as
> arguments, and which indicates, whether this is a valid UTF-8 byte
> sequence. This indication could be an error, or a respective return
> value.

That function could do the decoding and then check whether the result
contains any eight-bit characters (which mark the non-decodable parts).

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