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+/* Diacritics processing for a few character codes.
+   Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>, 1988.
+
+   All this file is a temporary hack, waiting for locales in GNU.
+*/
+
+extern const char diacrit_base[]; /* characters without diacritics */
+extern const char diacrit_diac[]; /* diacritic code for each character */
+
+/* Returns CHAR without its diacritic.  CHAR is known to be alphabetic.  */
+#define tobase(Char) (diacrit_base[(unsigned char) (Char)])
+
+/* Returns a diacritic code for CHAR.  CHAR is known to be alphabetic.  */
+#define todiac(Char) (diacrit_diac[(unsigned char) (Char)])
+