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, 07 Nov 2008 12:04:54 -0500 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> <87wsg345oo.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <86wsg2546l.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86abct3o4s.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226077748 25197 80.91.229.12 (7 Nov 2008 17:09:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:09:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16227@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Nov 07 18:10:11 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 1KyUqY-00053F-Ly for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:10:11 +0100 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 1KyUoY-0008A5-Rh; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:08:06 -0600 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 1KyUoX-00089t-Q5 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:08:05 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KyUoT-0006Kz-6P for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:08:05 -0600 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KyUob-0004Ef-00 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:08:09 +0100 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KyUlS-0005xH-0W; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:04:54 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Kenichi Handa on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:15:45 +0900) X-Spam-Score: -5.6 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67776 gmane.emacs.devel:105447 Archived-At: You pay attention only to the case of reading the coding system name. But, that is not the point I'm arguing. What do you think about the case of writing codes as I wrote in the previous mail? Do you mean this one? > With that, people think that "utf8" is a valid coding system > name, and will write a code something like this: > (decode-coding-string STR 'utf8) > and found that it signals an error because utf8 is not > statically declared as an alias. It isn't a big deal. The manual will explain, and there are ways to view the list of defined coding systems.