From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:59:20 -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 1224273782 13566 80.91.229.12 (17 Oct 2008 20:03:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:03:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16070@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 17 22:04:02 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 1KqvYF-0003xF-FF for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:03:59 +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 1KqvWN-0000XB-9f; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:02:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KqvWM-0000Wv-4A for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:02:02 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KqvWJ-0006lZ-K1 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:02:02 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KqvWO-00019c-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:02:04 +0200 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KqvTk-0006Yw-8l; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:59:20 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:41:44 -0400) X-Spam-Score: -5.6 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67619 gmane.emacs.devel:104577 Archived-At: > What's the advantage of giving the user an error when he types `utf8'? > Why not do what he wants? We can do that without adding a coding-system-alias. How do you propose to do it?