add new read_chars method, incidentally fix bug in old read_char method #1468
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having a read_chars method is convenient and more efficient.
the old read_char method had a bug due to re-use of the 'w' width variable as a loop counter and so was broken for wide characters, this patch fixes that.
(I cancelled the last pull request as I tidied the code up further.)