Here is the footer for the html file I am serving as a template: <div> Copyright (c) 2006 Reed Larkey Group Inc.   •   Website designed by <a href="http://www.bartosz.co.nr/">Bartosz Brzezinski</a> </div> Note the copyright symbol and the bullet. here is the code from the :get handler under araneida: (fill-and-print-template (pathname (concatenate 'string (araneida::static-file-pathname handler) (araneida::static-file-default-name handler))) nil :stream (request-stream request) :external-format :utf-8) )) It's plain and simple for now. No template vars, etc. I looked up 'with-open-file' and then 'open' to figure out what external-format types are valid, but the hyperspec said this was implementation specific. ATM, sbcl.org is down as well. I'm running sbcl 0.9.17 on an Intel Mac.

Did you try the EXTERNAL-FORMAT keyword argument of CREATE-TEMPLATE-PRINTER and FILL-AND-PRINT-TEMPLATE?

I added that to the example code above, but when I get the backtrace, you can see that EXTERNAL-FORMAT was LATIN-1, even though in 'create-template-printer' the same keyword arg is UTF-8, UNICODE, or whatever other value I pass in. -- Jonathon McKitrick Independent Software Consultant