--- gforth/utf-8.fs	2009/01/17 16:55:54	1.38
+++ gforth/utf-8.fs	2010/02/14 18:04:16	1.41
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 \ UTF-8 handling                                       12dec04py
 
-\ Copyright (C) 2004,2005,2006,2007,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+\ Copyright (C) 2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 \ This file is part of Gforth.
 
@@ -273,15 +273,17 @@ here wc-table - Constant #wc-table
 
 \ inefficient table walk:
 
-: wcwidth ( xc -- n )
+: xc-width ( xc -- n )
     wc-table #wc-table over + swap ?DO
 	dup I 2@ within IF  I 2 cells + @  UNLOOP EXIT  THEN
     3 cells +LOOP  1 ;
+[ELSE]
+    ' wcwidth Alias xc-width
 [THEN]
     
 : u8width ( xcaddr u -- n )
     0 rot rot over + swap ?DO
-        I xc@+ swap >r wcwidth +
+        I xc@+ swap >r xc-width +
     r> I - +LOOP ;
 
 : set-encoding-utf-8 ( -- )
@@ -326,6 +328,9 @@ environment-wordlist set-current
     \G ``ISO-LATIN-1'' or ``UTF-8'', with the exception of ``ASCII'', where
     \G we prefer the alias ``ASCII''.
     max-single-byte $80 = IF s" UTF-8" ELSE s" ISO-LATIN-1" THEN ;
+: max-xchar ( -- xchar )
+    max-single-byte $80 = IF $7FFFFFFF  ELSE  $FF  THEN ;
+' noop Alias X:xchar
 forth definitions
 
 :noname ( -- )