Hello, Just letting this list know that the cffi-newtypes branch at <http://common-lisp.net/~loliveira/darcs/cffi-newtypes/> includes, in addition to the new type system, a forward port of James' cffi-encodings branch. In addition to CLISP and SBCL support already provided by the cffi-encodings patches, cffi-newtypes includes support for OpenMCL, Lispworks and Allegro. The original discussion can be found here: Subject: a thought on string encodings <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.cffi.devel/292> -- Luís Oliveira http://student.dei.uc.pt/~lmoliv/