And hu.dwim.rdbms does use babel directly too.

So now we just need to patch hu.dwim.rdbms?

Regards,

chris

BABEL> (let ((octet-array-utf-16le (make-array 6 :element-type '(unsigned-byte 8)
                           :initial-contents (vector #X66 #X00 #X6F #X00 #X6F #X00))))
     (babel:octets-to-string octet-array-utf-16le :encoding :utf-16le))
"foo"