[asdf-devel] source file encoding

[Daniel Herring]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Faré wrote:
> On 29 January 2011 11:18, Cyrus Harmon <ch-lisp at bobobeach.com> wrote:
>> And, even worse, how do we asdf:load-op .asd files that contain non-ascii characters? (besides changing the locale, which, while it will work for a single .asd file, doesn't address the issue of how to load multiple ASDF systems from different locales).
>>
> Probably one of the below makes sense:
...
> 4- we embrace Unicode, and say it's UTF-8 by default wherever
> supported, falling back to iso-8859-1 or whatever on implementations
> that don't have it.
>
> I'd vote for 4.

I'd agree.

There are very few cases which justify using an encoding other than utf-8 
(or occasionally utf-16) for source code.  None should be relevant for ASD 
files.

Establishing one standard with fallbacks for less-capable implementations 
is better for portability than trying to accommodate every encoding.

- Daniel