[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55452] fopen() does not support encoding argument

[Andrew Janke]

Follow-up Comment #26, bug #55452 (project octave):

Hmm. If we're going to change "fgetl", it seems like "fgets" should change
too. The only difference between "fgetl" and "fgets" is whether they keep the
newline character.

It might make more sense to track Matlab's "fgets" behavior instead of POSIX
C's "fgets". And according to the Matlab doco, it reads characters in an
encoding-aware manner. https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fgets.html
(See "Tips" down at the bottom.) Interpreting the Matlab doco in this light is
a little hard, because Matlab uses 2-byte UTF-16 chars, so a Matlab char is
typically a single Unicode character, and vice versa.

I think you're right about POSIX C, though: when they say "character", I think
they usually mean C char.


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