[slime-devel] Unicode character misbehavior?

[Jeffrey Cunningham]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:56:20 -0700, Helmut Eller <heller at common-lisp.net>  
wrote:

> * Attila Lendvai [2011-10-30 17:31] writes:
>
>>> An appropriate :coding-system when starting the server would probably  
>>> help.
>>> E.g.:
>>>  (swank:create-server :port 4007 :style :spawn :dont-close t
>>>                       :coding-system "utf-8-unix")
>>
>>
>> using utf-8 as default in 2011 would have spared numerous people a
>> whole lot of time.
>
> Care to prove your claim?  I mean with numbers and measurements from
> repeatable experiments.
>

I can't speak for anyone else, but it gets my vote.

Is there a downside?