tags 25288 patch quit Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net >> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:10:30 -0500 >> Cc: 25288@debbugs.gnu.org >> >> Is there a way to recognize incomplete decoding from lisp? I can't see >> any. > > If you know the encoding of the byte stream (and term.el must, since > it evidently decodes it later on), then you could probably use > char-charset, after decoding: if you get 'eight-bit, then you've got > incomplete byte sequence. But I didn't try that. That should work at least for encodings like utf-8 for which undecoded bytes are not ascii. I guess parsing of escape codes would only work on such encodings anyway, so it should be fine. Patch attached.