Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard

[tomas]

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:21:25PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> >> That seems reasonable (though "-from-string" seems superfluous, given
> >> the argument is ... a string).
> >
> > Heh. But this would be ambiguous [...]

> Actually that points out a problem with the name --
> `guess-coding-system-from-string' implies that it somehow examines the
> _contents_ of the string [...]

Yes, that's what I was trying to say, in a round-about way. Sometimes
I've got foot in mouth. Thanks for expressing it more clearly :-)

> Perhaps something like `canonicalize-coding-system-name' would be good.

That's much clearer.

(not that a function guessing the coding system -- and the language! of
a stext snippet wouldn't be cool, though).

Regards
- -- tomás
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