chickadee » srfi-207 » write-textual-bytestring

Writes bytevector in the external format described in this SRFI to port. Bytes representing non-graphical ASCII characters are unencoded: all other bytes are encoded with a single letter if possible, otherwise with a \x escape. If port is omitted, it defaults to the value of (current-output-port).

(call-with-port (open-output-string)
                (lambda (port)
                  (write-textual-bytestring
                   #u8(#x9 #x41 #x72 #x74 #x68 #x75 #x72 #xa)
                   port)
                  (get-output-string port)))
  ⇒ "#u8\"\\tArthur\\n\""