py3: use .startswith() instead of bytes[0]
Doing bytes[0] will return the ascii value of that position which breaks
comparison with a bytechar.
This makes test-absorb.t work again on py3.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6508
#require docutils gettext
Error: the current ro localization has some rst defects exposed by
moving pager to core. These two warnings about references are expected
until the localization is corrected.
$ $TESTDIR/check-gendoc ro
checking for parse errors
gendoc.txt:58: (WARNING/2) Inline interpreted text or phrase reference start-string without end-string.
gendoc.txt:58: (WARNING/2) Inline interpreted text or phrase reference start-string without end-string.