[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57596] Should the "len" argument of "fgetl" and "fgets" mean bytes or characters

[Markus Mützel]

URL:
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                 Summary: Should the "len" argument of "fgetl" and "fgets"
mean bytes or characters
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mmuetzel
            Submitted on: Tue 14 Jan 2020 09:32:26 AM CET
                Category: Interpreter
                Severity: 2 - Minor
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

While implementing the encoding argument for fopen, the question arose of
whether the "len" argument of "fgetl" and "fgets" should correspond to the
number of bytes or the number of character entities that are read from an
input stream. This is different for encodings that use multiple bytes to
encode on single character (e.g. non-ASCII characters in UTF-8).




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