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

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Antoniotti Marco <antoniotti.marco at disco.unimib.it> writes:

> On Apr 10, 2014, at 16:31 , 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).
>
> 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.

No, not in this case.


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