David Lichteblau wrote:
in the mailing list archives, I found some discussion of external format support for :string types.
I have made support for external format of string (base on http://slacknet.com/~jamesjb/cffi-encoding/), but only for clisp/sbcl (but very pre-alpha and with some restrictions and reduction of functionality).
But I do not have time to complete it. I can send you the current variant.