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Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:41:44 -0400
> Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > 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.

Right, I agree that if we can do TRT without adding an alias, that is
better.