Character type *accumulator* stream

[kbeuls]

When decoding strings containing non base-char characters in Lispworks 7.1, the function string-stream-accumulator-add gave an error because the *accumulator* stream was initialised as containing base-chars, instead of characters.

(defparameter *output-stream* (make-string-output-stream))
(write-char #\’ *output-stream*)

This can be solved by setting the element-type explicitly to character when initializing the stream.

(defparameter *output-stream* (make-string-output-stream :element-type 'character))
(write-char #\’ *output-stream*)

[paulvaneecke]

This error also solved the problem for me!