Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF and character encodings

On 4/20/12 Apr 20 -6:43 PM, Daniel Herring wrote:

This topic came up at the Boston Lisp meeting last night. Here was my takeaway from the discussion.

ASDF does not need to support arbitrary encodings in system definition files. UTF-8 is the simplest and most portable solution for non-ASCII characters in system definitions.

This seems mostly true. The only exception I can really think of is for metadata. What if the author's name uses non UTF-8?

But it's not a perfect world, and we should probably learn to live with this.

best, r