Re: Patch: Promoting characters to 31 bits (for discussion)

Thursday, 1 July 1999

        "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes:

...
     Jan> Maybe putting characters in lrecords for Mule is the way
to
     Jan> go.  Maybe even with the ugly small-character/big-character
     Jan> thing I reposed for unsigned/signed integers above.

 Nope, uh-uh, sorry.  There are Emchars in every textual rune.  See
 redisplay.h. 
I am sorry  but what has that got do with it? Or put otherwise: That
is exactly the point. All code that deals with lots of characters
already deals with emchars directly, not with LispObject.

Jan

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