Yes. From the original description, this is a binary operation, not a character operation.
On Apr 10, 2014 10:45 PM, ra...@raito.com wrote: > > I end up doing something like: > > (defmacro with-open-binary-file (args &rest rest) > `(with-open-file (,@args :element-type '(unsigned-byte 8)) ,@rest)) > > (defun write-word (word out) > (write-byte (ldb (byte 8 8) word) out) > (write-byte (ldb (byte 8 0) word) out)) > > only because I'm exclusively writing binary stuff to the files this code > serves, and because it parallels the C code that does the same thing > fairly well. I'm not writing to a socket stream, but this may help anyway. > It might need to account for endianness, but I'm not sure. It's been a > while since I've looked at it closely. > > Neil Gilmore > ra...@raito.com > > > 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. > > > > -tree > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > >> On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:31, Paul Tarvydas <paultarvy...@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 > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> pro mailing list > >> pro@common-lisp.net > >> http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pro mailing list > > pro@common-lisp.net > > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pro mailing list > pro@common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro _______________________________________________ pro mailing list pro@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro