REPL crashes when pressing non-ASCII character

[KlausC]

The current build crashes the REPL.

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.7.0-DEV.3057
Commit a5c9e88 (2017-12-17 09:45 UTC)
Platform Info:
OS: Linux (x86_64-redhat-linux)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz
WORD_SIZE: 64
BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Sandybridge)
LAPACK: libopenblas64_
LIBM: libopenlibm
LLVM: libLLVM-3.9.1 (ORCJIT, ivybridge)
Environment:

julia>

Here I pressed §, a standard character on my keyboard. Same effect, when pressing Ä or any other non-ASCII type.

ERROR: MethodError: no method matching position(::Base.Terminals.TTYTerminal)
Closest candidates are:
position(::Base.Filesystem.File) at filesystem.jl:222
position(::Base.Libc.FILE) at libc.jl:94
position(::IOStream) at iostream.jl:188
...
Stacktrace:
[1] mark(::Base.Terminals.TTYTerminal) at ./io.jl:861
[2] peek at ./iostream.jl:462 [inlined]
[3] read(::Base.Terminals.TTYTerminal, ::Type{Char}) at ./io.jl:608
[4] match_input(::Dict{Char,Any}, ::Base.LineEdit.MIState, ::Base.Terminals.TTYTerminal, ::Array{Char,1}, ::Dict{Char,Any}) at ./repl/LineEdit.jl:1288
[5] match_input at ./repl/LineEdit.jl:1287 [inlined]
[6] prompt!(::Base.Terminals.TTYTerminal, ::Base.LineEdit.ModalInterface, ::Base.LineEdit.MIState) at ./repl/LineEdit.jl:2314
[7] run_interface(::Base.Terminals.TTYTerminal, ::Base.LineEdit.ModalInterface, ::Base.LineEdit.MIState) at ./repl/LineEdit.jl:2223
[8] run_frontend(::Base.REPL.LineEditREPL, ::Base.REPL.REPLBackendRef) at ./repl/REPL.jl:1024
[9] run_repl(::Base.REPL.LineEditREPL, ::getfield(Base, Symbol("##605#607"))) at ./repl/REPL.jl:183
[10] _start() at ./client.jl:420
[crusius@KlausPC julia]$

[fredrikekre]

This bug makes it painfully obvious how often I mistype... But perhaps if the REPL will crash every time I mistype I will learn not to!

[KlausC]

This is obviously a generalization of #25098.

[vchuravy]

closed as dup of #25098