From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
rms@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:25:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081021062510.GB22593@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoljwicyhg.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:23:55PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
> > How about `guess-coding-system-from-string' (or an abbreviation, but I
> > would prefer it be inconvenient to provide the guessing functionality)?
>
> 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 ;-)
Regards
- -- tomás
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Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-10-14 20:50 ` gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-15 0:39 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-15 16:10 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-15 17:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-15 19:49 ` Reiner Steib
2008-10-15 19:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-15 22:03 ` Reiner Steib
2008-10-15 21:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-16 0:15 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-10-20 16:23 ` Reiner Steib
2008-10-16 4:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-16 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-16 13:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-16 2:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-16 14:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-16 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-16 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-17 19:59 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-18 19:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-20 1:14 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-20 3:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-20 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-20 17:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-21 4:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-21 5:23 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-21 6:25 ` tomas [this message]
2008-10-21 6:21 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-21 7:44 ` tomas
2008-10-21 23:48 ` Juri Linkov
2008-10-22 5:05 ` tomas
2008-10-21 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-21 9:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-21 10:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-21 12:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-21 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-22 2:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-22 4:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-22 21:02 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-22 0:32 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-22 4:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-27 4:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-21 8:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-20 16:00 ` Reiner Steib
2008-10-20 22:03 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-21 2:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-21 16:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-22 1:22 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-22 2:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-22 6:21 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-23 2:34 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-23 21:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-24 0:54 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-24 18:36 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-22 13:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-24 17:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-25 2:01 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-25 2:32 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-26 4:10 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-31 6:33 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-31 7:24 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-31 19:31 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-01 2:17 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-11-02 1:53 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-07 7:15 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-11-07 17:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-25 18:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-26 4:10 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-31 21:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-10 5:43 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-11-10 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-16 1:12 ` Kenichi Handa
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