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[RMS at MIT-AI (Richard M. Stallman)]

   I don't know of any arguments that you can't use CHAR-CODE and use
   the fixnum representation where apropriate.  Certainly I haven't
   made such an argument.

I was talking about turning the entire character, not just the code,
into a fixnum.  Someone claimed that this was not transportable, so I
argued that it was no less transportable than turning just the code
into a fixnum.