Re: [r6rs] no way to turn of coding: comment interpretation?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Marco Maggi <address@hidden>
>
>
>> It  is  an  Emacs  coding,  UTF-8 
>> with  the  suffix  "-unix"
>> (explained  in the  
>> Emacs  info doc  node "Coding  Systems")
>> which  
>> means  no   end-of-line  conversion  and  newline  
>> to
>> separate lines.
>
> We talked about making a list of aliases between
> Emacs coding names and standard encoding names
> at one point.

Bruno Haible once argued that we should stick to IANA encoding names
rather than follow Emacs’ lead in defining new names:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2009-11/msg00053.html

>From a practical viewpoint, though, it may make sense to allow more
Emacs encoding names in ‘coding:’ cookies, since these are an Emacs
thing anyway.

So, ‘file-encoding’ could be taught more encoding names than
‘set-port-encoding!’ (and it could be written in Scheme, too.)

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.