[bitc-dev] bug in character decode routines

[Sam Mason]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:38:29PM -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> The bigger issue here is unicode characters, which we haven't got a good
> answer for yet.

I can't comment on the wider issues, but I'm slightly confused as to why
the code generator outputs characters as C chars as opposed to integers.
For example #\a gets compiled to '\141', whereas I'd expect it to just
end up as the number 97.  I guess I'm missing something!


  Sam