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sbbs person here. My knowledge of encoding in Emacs is quite limited, since just like most people I stick to multibyte buffers all the time. As far as I see, this approach would also work, the only thing that annoys me is that I don't see a direct way to translate your expression into procedural code that works on buffers. This would be necessary to avoid converting the response into a string and back again, that just strains the garbage collector and slows everything down in larger threads (such as this one). If you find anything, post a note here or in the ticked linked above.