ded characters to a <code>STRING</code>. The element type of <code>BYTES</code> may
be anything as long as it can be <code>COERCE</code>d into an <code>(UNSIGNED-BYTES
8)</code> array. May signal <a href="#x-28TRIVIAL-UTF-8-3AUTF-8-DECODING-ERROR-20CONDITION-29" title="(TRIVIAL-UTF-8:UTF-8-DECODING-ERROR CONDITION)"><code>UTF-8-DECODING-ERROR</code></a>.</p></li>
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