When I make the request like this: (drakma:http-request "http://www.w3.org/2001/06/utf-8-test/UTF-8-demo.html") It results in error: "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\"> <html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"> <head><title>UTF-8 test file</title></head> <body> <p>Original by Markus Kuhn, adapted for HTML by Martin Dürst.</p> <pre> UTF-8 encoded sample plain-text file debugger invoked on a SB-INT:STREAM-ENCODING-ERROR in thread #<THREAD "initial t hread" {BBDF5A9}>: encoding error on stream #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "standard output" {BBDF859}> (:EXTERNAL-FORMAT :ASCII): the character with code 8254 cannot be encoded. Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL. restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name): 0: [OUTPUT-NOTHING] Skip output of this character. 1: [ABORT ] Exit debugger, returning to top level. (SB-INT:STREAM-ENCODING-ERROR #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "standard output" {BBDF859}> 8254) 0] Is it some parameter that I forgot to call http-request with to make it aware of utf-8 encoding? Thank you, Andrew