[asdf-devel] source file encoding

[Faré]

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 13:44, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I did a ckeck of quicklisp systems.  There are 263 lisp files in 107
>> systems which assume non-ASCII, and only 31 of them in 20 systems assume
>> non-UTF-8:
>>
> OK. Any volunteer to contact the authors of these 20 systems and get
> each issue fixed?
> Or even to split the job in 2, 3, 4, 5?
>
OK, I contacted all the authors or maintainers of the offending software
that Orivej identified as requiring a fix to compile.

In at least one case (regex), the original author's address
Michael Parker <mparker762 at hotmail.com> is invalid,
and I contacted a maintainer instead Michael Weber <michaelw at foldr.org>
who might not be the source that Xach uses judging from the version number
in Quicklisp (michaelw uses darcs, but quicklisp
has a version 1 instead of $date-darcs).
I'm not convinced that portable-hemlock is actively maintained either.

I updated the status page at
https://github.com/orivej/asdf-encodings/wiki/Tracking-non-UTF-8-lisp-files-in-Quicklisp

Finally, I created a mostly useless asdf-encodings at:
  ssh://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/git/asdf-encodings.git
  git://common-lisp.net/projects/asdf/asdf-encodings.git
I invite those people who want to use non-UTF-8 encodings
to submit patches to this project.

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