Re: Wide chars and the VM

[Andy Wingo]

On Sat 18 Apr 2009 17:04, Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:

> Andy et al.
>
> What happens to the VM if characters become UCS-4 that ranges from 0 to
> 10FFFF?
>
> For example, in compile-bytecode.scm, 
>
> (define (write-bytecode asm write-byte get-addr labels)
>   (define (write-char c)
>     (write-byte (char->integer c)))

We add a make-char24 instruction, and write a uint24 if the
(char->integer c) is bigger than 255. Sound right to you?

Andy
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