[asdf-devel] ASDF and character encodings

[Robert Goldman]

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