From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:27:45 -0400 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224167504 26381 80.91.229.12 (16 Oct 2008 14:31:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 16:32:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KqTtO-00006L-NR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:31:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqTsC-0000RB-90 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:30:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KqTro-0000HV-Iw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:30:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KqTrn-0000H6-SI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:30:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57491 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqTrn-0000H0-NT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:30:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:51856) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KqTrn-00041S-8T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:30:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KqTpJ-0001iY-1J; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:27:45 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:41:29 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:104553 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67600 Archived-At: Such aliases aren't much use and they become annoying duplicates when listing coding systems. That is no reason to omit the aliases people use. You could add a way to mark aliases so they don't appear in that list. What's the advantage of giving the user an error when he types `utf8'? Why not do what he wants?