On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Nelson Marcelino marcelin7@yahoo.com wrote:

I am looking for help with the following: I am not sure if BABEL is the error here or not.

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illegal: UTF-8 character starting on position 7. [Condition of type BABEL-ENCODINGS-INVALID-UTF8-STARTER-BYTE]

(Note, with Lispworks and the same CLSQL, I don't have this problem--the BABEL query works fine)

Try binding CFFI:*DEFAULT-FOREIGN-ENCODING* to :ISO-8859-1.