* Michał "phoe" Herda phoe@teknik.io 32cf971b-ecc1-d54f-8ea6-4746cddca9ee@teknik.io Wrote on Sun, 21 Aug 2022 11:21:15 +0200
This doesn't look like a problem on the Alexandria side. Stuffing ub8 values into any place that requires characters *always* requires additional information about character encoding (is it latin1? latin2? windows-1250?) and dealing with character encodings is out of scope of Alexandria. I think that Flexi Streams/Babel should be explicitly used in this context.
1. The function contract requires it to return a string which is of type character. 2. Arranging to call WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING with an octet backing it is buffer is a bug. 3. Lisps implementation support bivalent streams and alendria (correctly) deferred to the implementations behaviour, and this has been changed.
If we accept your position, READ-STREAM-CONTENT-INTO-STRING function would have to be removed from alexandia, since it cannot support it.