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Re: with-url


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: with-url
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 17:40:09 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

>> Please don't use "charset" when you really mean "coding-system".  In
>> Emacs parlance, "charset" means something very different (and "utf-8"
>> is not a charset in that meaning), so this will spread confusion.
>
> True, I'll reword that.

(But in a networking environment, the Emacs terminology is very
confusing.  You have `coding system' where all standards say `charset',
and in addition you have all the standards talking about `encoding',
which is things like base64 and url-encoding.  So the parameter list, if
changed, will talk about :data-coding-system and
:data-transfer-encoding, which is probably not as helpful as it should
be.

And note that utf-8 is a perfectly good charset in standards: "Charset"
means "encoded character set" in RFCs.)

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