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


From: Kenichi Handa
Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:22:59 +0900
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In article <address@hidden>, Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

KH> I think it's not good to give a user an incorrect impression
KH> that "utf8" is a correct name.  In IANA
KH> (http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets), there's no
KH> alias names for "UTF-8".

> So maybe display a message "This is not the real coding system name, use
> `utf-8'" and also don't offer utf8 for completion?  Would that be
> sufficient?

Do we really need such a tedious warning?  When one types
"utf8 RET" and sees "no match" message, he can use
completion to learn what is the correct name.  I think that
is enough.

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Kenichi Handa
address@hidden





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