Hi Edi--
the SLIME inspector gives me this for the flexi-stream, and 1509=0x05e5 which is "HEBREW LETTER FINAL TSADI". It looks like OpenMCL is attempting to read unicode rather than raw bytes. Hmm...
An object. [type: FLEXI-STREAMS::FLEXI-UTF-8-INPUT-STREAM] -------------------- Class: #<STANDARD-CLASS FLEXI-STREAMS::FLEXI-UTF-8-INPUT-STREAM> -------------------- All Slots: CLOSED = NIL [set value] [make unbound] DIRECTION = :INPUT [set value] [make unbound] ELEMENT-TYPE = CHARACTER [set value] [make unbound] EXTERNAL-FORMAT = #<EXTERNAL-FORMAT (:UTF-8 :EOL-STYLE :LF) #x8522FFE> [set value] [make unbound] LAST-CHAR-CODE = 1509 [set value] [make unbound] LAST-OCTET = NIL [set value] [make unbound] OCTET-STACK = NIL [set value] [make unbound] POSITION = 3 [set value] [make unbound] SHARED-RESOURCE = NIL [set value] [make unbound] STREAM = #<FILE-BINARY-INPUT-STREAM ("home:src;site;flexi-streams-0.11.2;test;hebrew_utf8_lf.txt"/8) #x856FC86> [set value] [make unbound]
regards
Tiarnán