Re: [pro] write-char vs. 8-bit bytes

Paul,

you need to use a stream with :element-type '(unsigned-type 8) if you want to control the binary encoding. If you need to mix binary and text, maybe FLEXI-STREAMS (http://weitz.de/flexi-streams/) is helpful.

-Hans

2014-04-10 10:31 GMT-04:00 Paul Tarvydas paultarvydas@gmail.com:

I'm using sbcl to write-char a 16-bit unsigned integer to a socket as two separate unsigned 8-bit bytes, for example 141 should appear as

#x00 #x8d.

SBCL appears to convert the #x8d into a two-byte utf-8 char, resulting in 3 bytes written to the stream

#x00 #xcd #x8d.

What is the proper incantation to achieve this? (SBCL on Windows, if that matters).

thanks pt

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