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

[Tom Emerson]

I started such a thing a while ago, but never got it to the point of submitting. There is a student interested in enhancing the Unicode support in SBCL for GSOC 14: perhaps I can integrate that into his project, at least partially. 

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> On Apr 10, 2014, at 11:05, Antoniotti Marco <antoniotti.marco at disco.unimib.it> wrote:
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>> On Apr 10, 2014, at 16:31 , Paul Tarvydas <paultarvydas at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> #x00 #x8d.
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>> SBCL appears to convert the #x8d into a two-byte utf-8 char, resulting in 3 bytes written to the stream
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>> \#x00 #xcd #x8d.
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>> What is the proper incantation to achieve this?  (SBCL on Windows, if that matters).
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> It may not be very helpful, but the “right incantation” would be to write a CDR that specified the behavior of implementations that deal with UTF* and UNICODE.
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> Any takers?
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> Cheers
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> MA
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