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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:33:14 +0200
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> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,
>     ding@gnus.org,
>     emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>     tomas@tuxteam.de,
>     monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>     miles@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:34:17 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
>  > What I meant is that, instead of returning a _string_, which is the
>  > name of a coding system, it is better to return a _symbol_ of that
>  > coding system.
> 
> Of course.  My point is that the symbol is the name, and therefore
> "canonicalize-coding-system-name" is a reasonable name for this
> function.

"-name" is generally a string, like in "symbol-name".