Hello, Below, a small suggestion and a bug report. Regards, Francis 1. In rod-to-utf8-string, element-type should be base-char, which is used for strings of characters having 8-bit encoding in some implementations (would take less memory in these implementations - LW, ACL and others maybe) (defun rod-to-utf8-string (rod) (let ((out (make-buffer :element-type 'character))) (runes-to-utf8/adjustable-string out rod (length rod)) out)) 2. While experimenting with the functions cxml:utf8-string-to-rod and cxml:rod-to-utf8-string, I found that the string returned by cxml:utf8-string-to-rod doesn't include the last input character when this character is not an ascii character. On LWw 5.0.2, an example with the micro sign: USER 8 > (cxml:rod-to-utf8-string (format nil "abc~C" (code-char #x03BC))) "abcμ" USER 9 > (cxml:utf8-string-to-rod (cxml:rod-to-utf8-string (format nil "abc~C." (code-char #x03BC)))) "abcµ." USER 10 > (cxml:utf8-string-to-rod (cxml:rod-to-utf8-string (format nil "abc~C" (code-char #x03BC)))) "abc" The problem seems to come from the method (defmethod runes-encoding:decode-sequence ((encoding (eql :utf-8)) ...) ...) where the tests (< (%+ rptr ...) in-end) should probably be (<= (%+ rptr ...) in-end) instead. -- Francis Leboutte Algorithme, Rue de la Charrette 141, 4130 Tilff (Esneux), Belgique Service en informatique f.leboutte@algo.be www.algo.be +32-(0)4.388.3919