--- gforth/kernel/xchars.fs	2007/12/31 17:34:59	1.12
+++ gforth/kernel/xchars.fs	2008/12/31 15:29:14	1.15
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 \ extended characters (either 8bit or UTF-8, possibly other encodings)
 \ and their fixed-size variant
 
-\ Copyright (C) 2005,2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+\ Copyright (C) 2005,2006,2007,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 \ This file is part of Gforth.
 
 \ Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 \ modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
-\ as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+\ as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
 \ of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
 \ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@
 \ GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 \ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-\ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-\ Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
+\ along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
 
 \ We can do some of these (and possibly faster) by just using the
 \ utf-8 words with an appropriate setting of max-single-byte, but I
@@ -89,6 +88,8 @@ Defer -trailing-garbage ( xc-addr u1 --
     holdptr @ dup holdbuf u< -&17 and throw
     8 xc!+? 2drop drop ;
 
+: xc, ( xchar -- ) here unused xc!+? 2drop dp ! ;
+
 \ fixed-size versions of these words
 
 : char- ( c-addr1 -- c-addr2 )