octet-stream to character stream conversions

I plan to review my cl-ssl implementation in near future which will also
mean to integrate it better with LWs buffering code.

It will be easy to get that running for pure ascii and binary
transmissions but I have no clue on how to support other external
formats. I think it would be nice if one could convert a stream of
octets to its corresponding stream of characters in the actual external
format. Is there something like that available in LispWorks?

ciao,
Jochen