"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You could play tricks with ob_size to save this field:
>
> - ob_size < 0: 8-bit data; length is abs(ob_size)
> - ob_size > 0, (ob_size & 1)==0: 16-bit data, length is ob_size/2
> - ob_size > 0, (ob_size & 1)==1: 32-bit data, length is ob_size/2
I wonder whether strings with characters outside ISO-8859-1 are common
enough that having a 16-bit representation is worth the trouble.
CLISP does have it. My language doesn't.
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__("< Marcin Kowalczyk
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