From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:06:15 +0900 Message-ID: <87skqqtls8.fsf@xemacs.org> References: <87iqruvs19.fsf@jidanni.org> <86od1mj3z2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86od1lg3xq.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d4i1iqpq.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <86k5c9fzm9.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878wsph5xr.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87wsg2tvcn.fsf@xemacs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224576103 12941 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2008 08:01:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:01:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org, Stefan Monnier To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16101@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 21 10:02:41 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KsCCO-00080D-2C for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:02:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KsCAo-0003nh-BE; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:01:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KsCAm-0003nP-Qw for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:01:00 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KsCAi-0001L8-Nh for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:01:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KsCAp-0007gG-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:01:03 +0200 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D411535C0; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:00:53 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EE72F1A26AE; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:06:15 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 83e35df20028+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67652 gmane.emacs.devel:104731 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" 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). No, the argument is a Lisp object, as always. :-) The superfluity is intentional, as I mentioned. Probably it's not necessary to discourage its use, though, people will only go to the trouble of using it in `read-coding-system' (interactive Emacs users are not lusers :-) and in MUAs.