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Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:21:25 +0900 |
address@hidden writes:
>> That seems reasonable (though "-from-string" seems superfluous, given
>> the argument is ... a string).
>
> Heh. But this would be ambiguous. You might be feeding the function a
> string encoded in some unknown coding system and expecting it to guess
> what this is (e.g. using some statistical magic). The sister of
> guess-coding-system-from-buffer (as long as I might be baking
> pies-in-the-sky ;-)
Actually that points out a problem with the name --
`guess-coding-system-from-string' implies that it somehow examines the
_contents_ of the string and tries to choose a reasonable coding system,
whereas in fact it simply treats it as a name.
Perhaps something like `canonicalize-coding-system-name' would be good.
-Miles
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- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, (continued)
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/16
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/10/17
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/18
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/10/19
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/19
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/20
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/10/20
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/10/21
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Miles Bader, 2008/10/21
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, tomas, 2008/10/21
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, tomas, 2008/10/21
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Juri Linkov, 2008/10/21
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, tomas, 2008/10/22
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/21
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/10/21
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/21
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/10/21
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/21
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/10/21
- Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/22