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-rw-r--r--doc/read.n10
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/gets.n b/doc/gets.n
index 59e00c7..29355a4 100644
--- a/doc/gets.n
+++ b/doc/gets.n
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ continued multi-byte sequence at position 1 (\fBA \\xC3 B\fR):
.PP
File creation for example
.CS
-% set f [open test_A_195_B.txt wb]; puts -nonewline $f A\xC3B; close $f
+% set f [open test_A_195_B.txt wb]; puts -nonewline $f A\\xC3B; close $f
.CE
Encoding error example
.CS
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ file384b6a8
% catch {gets $f} e d
1
% set d
--data A -code 1 -level 0
+-code 1 -level 0
-errorstack {INNER {invokeStk1 gets file384b6a8}}
-errorcode {POSIX EILSEQ {invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character}}
-errorinfo {...} -errorline 1
@@ -81,7 +81,9 @@ file384b6a8
% gets $f
AÃB
.CE
-ToDo: -data is TIP 653 and may be removed here or explained.
+Compared to \fBread\fR, any already decoded data is not consumed.
+The file position is still at 0 and the recovery \fBgets\fR returns also the
+already well decoded leading data.
.SH "EXAMPLE"
This example reads a file one line at a time and prints it out with
the current line number attached to the start of each line.
diff --git a/doc/read.n b/doc/read.n
index c1291bf..2add683 100644
--- a/doc/read.n
+++ b/doc/read.n
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ which \fBfconfigure\fR will alter input.
.PP
Encoding errors may exist, if the encoding profile \fBstrict\fR is used.
Encoding errors are special, as an eventual introspection or recovery is
-possible by changing to an encoding which accepts the data.
+possible by changing to an encoding (or encoding profile), which accepts
+the data.
An encoding error is reported by the POSIX error code \fBEILSEQ\fR.
.PP
In blocking mode, the error is directly thrown, even, if there is a
@@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ continued multi-byte sequence at position 1 (\fBA \\xC3 B\fR):
File creation for examples
.
.CS
-% set f [open test_A_195_B.txt wb]; puts -nonewline $f A\xC3B; close $f
+% set f [open test_A_195_B.txt wb]; puts -nonewline $f A\\xC3B; close $f
.CE
Blocking example
.
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ file35a65a0
% catch {read $f} e d
1
% set d
--data A -code 1 -level 0
+-code 1 -level 0
-errorstack {INNER {invokeStk1 read file35a65a0}}
-errorcode {POSIX EILSEQ {invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character}}
-errorinfo {...} -errorline 1
@@ -110,12 +111,11 @@ A
% catch {read $f} e d
1
% set d
--data {} -code 1 -level 0
+-code 1 -level 0
-errorstack {INNER {invokeStk1 read file384b228}}
-errorcode {POSIX EILSEQ {invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character}}
-errorinfo {...} -errorline 1
.CE
-ToDo: -data is TIP 653 and may be removed here or explained.
.SH "USE WITH SERIAL PORTS"
'\" Note: this advice actually applies to many versions of Tcl
.PP