From: Steve Gonedes
Subject: Re: code-char and char-code
Date: 
Message-ID: <m2yah9zbel.fsf@KludgeUnix.com>
Jan Egil Hagen <·····@nntp.ifi.uio.no> writes:

< I am confused about the behavior of code-char and char-code.
< According to the HyperSpec, (code-char (char-code c)) is supposed to
< return c.  But Allegro CL Trial Edition 5.0 behaves like this:
<
< (code-char (char-code #\newline))
< => #\newline
< (code-char (char-code #\�))
< => #\%x

It will print how you expect when you change the result into a string.

(string (code-char (char-code #\�))) => "�"