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

[Andrew Janke]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #57596 (project octave):

I find Nicholas' Matlab-compatibility argument pretty compelling.

Also, I can't think of an actual use case where one might be doing
character/text-oriented reading from a stream on a file handle, but would want
to specify a number of bytes read instead of number of characters returned.
Maybe if you're trying to optimize the buffering and paging behavior of
reading from a file? But that's crazy low-level C stuff; surely not something
that Octave should be concerned about, right? If that was the case, you'd
provided a lower-level non-buffered I/O API, right?

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