There has been discussion about character i/o in this SRFI.
I personally think without character i/o SRFI56 is kind of handicapt.
At least utf8 encodering must be supported I think.

Note: Often with binary I/O one will want to do something
like: write_int(utf8-byte-size(some-string)) write-utf8-string(some-string).

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