[ clisp-Bugs-3520978 ] file-length non conforming.

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Bugs item #3520978, was opened at 2012-04-24 04:54
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Category: clisp
Group: ANSI compliance issue
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Pascal J. Bourguignon (informatimago)
Assigned to: Bruno Haible (haible)
Summary: file-length non conforming.

Initial Comment:
FILE-LENGTH should return the number of CHARACTER in a text file.  It returns instead the number of bytes.

Either:
1- do the right thing, read the whole file when the encoding isnot a 1-1 encoding, and count the characters, or
2- document that FILE-LENGTH on CHARACTER text files with non 1-1 encodings deviates from the standard.



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