(string-to-char-list): New function.
+2002-04-15  Katsumi Yamaoka  <yamaoka@jpl.org>
+
+       * poem-xm.el (char-length): New function.
+       (string-to-char-list): New function.
+
 2002-03-04  Katsumi Yamaoka  <yamaoka@jpl.org>
 
        * pym.el: Add a note that `def*-maybe' might not provide functions
 
   "Return index of character succeeding CHAR whose index is INDEX."
   `(1+ ,index))
 
+(defun-maybe char-length (char)
+  "Return indexing length of multi-byte form of CHAR."
+  1)
+
 
 ;;; @ string
 ;;;
 (defun-maybe string-to-int-list (str)
   (mapcar #'char-int str))
 
+(defun-maybe string-to-char-list (str)
+  (mapcar #'identity str))
+
 (defalias 'looking-at-as-unibyte 'looking-at)