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

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Paul Tarvydas <paultarvydas at gmail.com> writes:

> 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).

http://www.cliki.net/CloserLookAtCharacters

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