peek_byte(Stream, Byte) reads the next byte from the input stream Stream without removing it nor modifying the stream's position or the end-of-file status and unifies it with Byte.
Note: in JavaScript, characters are represented using 16 bits, so, in browser, reading the next byte of a single character will make this predicate unify twice: the first time for the 8 least significant bits, and the second one for the next 8 bits. In the case of Node.js, the bits used to represent a character will depend on the file encoding.