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

[Tom Emerson]

I can't easily verify right now, but check the :external-format on your stream: it may be defaulting to UTF-8 and you will need to specify something else. 

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> On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:31, Paul Tarvydas <paultarvydas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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