FWIW the most minimal attempted standard of an s-expression would be rivest's basic s-expressions, which, as an extension of djb's netstrings can represent arbitrary binary values:
<sexpr> :: <string> | <list>
<string> :: <display>? <simple-string> ;
<simple-string> :: <raw> ;
<display> :: "[" <simple-string> "]" ;
<raw> :: <decimal> ":" <bytes> ;
<decimal> :: <decimal-digit>+ ;
-- decimal numbers should have no unnecessary leading zeros
<bytes> -- any string of bytes, of the indicated length
<list> :: "(" <sexp>* ")" ;
<decimal-digit> :: "0" | ... | "9" ;