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Asked: 2026-06-04T21:11:58+00:00

As already pointed out in the topic, I got the following error: Character #\u009C

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As already pointed out in the topic, I got the following error:

Character #\u009C cannot be represented in the character set CHARSET:CP1252

trying to print out a string given back by drakma:http-request, as far as I understand the error-code the problem is that the windows-encoding (CP1252) does not support this character.
Therefore to be able to process it, I might/must convert the whole string.

My question is what package/library does support converting strings to certain character-sets efficiently?

An alike question is this one, but just ignoring the error would not help in my case.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Drakma already does the job of “converting strings”: after all, when it reads from some random webserver, it just gets a stream of bytes. It then has to convert that to a lisp string. You probably want to bind *drakma-default-external-format* to something else, although I can’t remember off-hand what the allowable values are. Maybe something like :utf-8?

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