Re: Reading data from a file descriptor

[tomas]

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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:59:56PM +0000, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:53:19 +0100

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> guile's R6RS implementation has get-bytevector-some, which will do that
> for you, with unix-read-like behaviour.

Thank you a thousand. You made me happy :-)

> You cannot use this for UTF-8 text by trying to convert the bytevector
> with utf8->string, because you could have received a partially formed
> utf-8 character.

I understand that. If you want to do that you need an incremental
converter, like the one provided by iconv(3).

>                  So for text, you should use line orientated reading,
> such as with ice-9 read-line or R6RS get-line.

Not necessarily, see above. Perhaps just sub-streams of your input are
UTF-8, or whatever; but yes, the parsing responsibility is then with
the user, by whatever means.

Thank you again. I was looking for that function all in the wrong
places :-/

Regards
- -- tomás
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