From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67649 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:25:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20081021062510.GB22593@tomas> References: <87wsg2tvcn.fsf@xemacs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224569523 24435 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2008 06:12:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:12:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Stefan Monnier , rms@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 08:13:02 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KsAUI-0004s2-Jg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:13:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsATC-0004op-Ja for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:11:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsAT8-0004oa-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:11:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsAT5-0004oO-ED for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:11:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39920 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsAT5-0004oL-A9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:11:47 -0400 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104]:37394 helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KsAT2-00035M-7K; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:11:44 -0400 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5F72390068; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:25:10 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:104720 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67649 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:23:55PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > > How about `guess-coding-system-from-string' (or an abbreviation, but = I > > would prefer it be inconvenient to provide the guessing functionality= )? >=20 > That seems reasonable (though "-from-string" seems superfluous, given > the argument is ... a string). Heh. But this would be ambiguous. You might be feeding the function a string encoded in some unknown coding system and expecting it to guess what this is (e.g. using some statistical magic). The sister of guess-coding-system-from-buffer (as long as I might be baking pies-in-the-sky ;-) Regards - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI/XXGBcgs9XrR2kYRAo1iAJwIMOLgXh7PMe7mHGKsh6P91JgouwCggR2C 9cf67dAWHLoiBOi+xVbxT6A=3D =3DOgJa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----