JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 5a52719ce7fa60e11c4d717be5a4bfa1eacc5213
File: src/flisp/julia_extensions.c line 44
By JeffBezanson:

I'm only calling it on bytes in the tab completion code, so it's very approximate at the moment. If the current locale is utf-8, we likely have a utf-8 string so we should parse it appropriately.