In older versions, the 'read' function in the terminal library (termlib.lua) was most likely vibecoded by Fluxdrive, and was basically very inefficient. The new Unicode library includes functions for getting a code point from a character, and iterating Unicode characters from a string or an iterator function that returns every byte. It is now possible, in the filesystem library, to make virtual 'read streams' (filesystem.makeReadStream), which does the same thing as opening a file with some specific content. There are some new functions in read streams, which allows you to loop through bytes (open(...):iterateBytes), and loop through Unicode characters (open(...):iterateUnicodeChars). The edit app will be updated to v1.2.1 for importing the new Unicode library.
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