From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:33:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87wsg2tvcn.fsf@xemacs.org> <20081021062510.GB22593@tomas> <87prlutizh.fsf@xemacs.org> <87k5c2tan9.fsf@xemacs.org> <87fxmptl1y.fsf@xemacs.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224650058 3961 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2008 04:34:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:34:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, tomas@tuxteam.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16119@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 22 06:35:18 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 1KsVRF-0007TD-Gj for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:35:17 +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 1KsVQ4-0006vk-0g; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:34:04 -0500 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 1KsVQ2-0006vO-NU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:34:02 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KsVPz-0008Jg-TQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:34:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KsVQ5-0005Gg-00 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:34:05 +0200 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.98.197]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K94002AXI1P20A2@i_mtaout5.012.net.il> for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:34:39 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87fxmptl1y.fsf@xemacs.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67668 gmane.emacs.devel:104817 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > 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".