Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

It seems that this thread is left unsolved.

In article <uabcxfe4v.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> > > > Perhaps something like `canonicalize-coding-system-name' would be good.
> > 
> > > That implies that the return value would be a string, not the coding
> > > system itself.  I suggest we return the coding system (or nil), not
> > > just the name.
> > 
> > > Some time back in this thread I suggested `coding-system-for-charset'
> > > (since the argument strings will be charsets).
> > 
> > But, "for-charset" implies that it should be used for
> > mime-charset.  What is required is to find a coding system
> > by loose name matching (not necessarily a mime-charset
> > name), isn't it?
> > 
> > How about `resolve-coding-system-name'?

> Canonicalize is better, IMO.  But again, I think the function should
> return a symbol, not its name (which is a string).  There's no need to
> request that users intern the string.

I've just installed a new function `coding-system-from-name'
and use it to fix broken rmail-get-coding-system.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org