From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67651 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 09:44:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20081021074415.GA23370@tomas> References: <87wsg2tvcn.fsf@xemacs.org> <20081021062510.GB22593@tomas> 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 1224574271 6741 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2008 07:31:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:31:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , ding@gnus.org, rms@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 09:32:10 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 1KsBis-0003jq-2a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:32:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56911 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsBhm-0006hR-DW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsBhf-0006h4-GY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:30:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsBhd-0006gc-PR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:30:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52138 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsBhd-0006gZ-LD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:30:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:4275) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KsBha-0001UW-St; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:30:51 -0400 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104] helo=www.elogos.de) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KsBhZ-0005j1-LD; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:30:49 -0400 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0447E90096; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:44:16 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:104730 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67651 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:21:25PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > tomas@tuxteam.de writes: > >> That seems reasonable (though "-from-string" seems superfluous, give= n > >> the argument is ... a string). > > > > Heh. But this would be ambiguous [...] > Actually that points out a problem with the name -- > `guess-coding-system-from-string' implies that it somehow examines the > _contents_ of the string [...] Yes, that's what I was trying to say, in a round-about way. Sometimes I've got foot in mouth. Thanks for expressing it more clearly :-) > Perhaps something like `canonicalize-coding-system-name' would be good. That's much clearer. (not that a function guessing the coding system -- and the language! of a stext snippet wouldn't be cool, though). Regards - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI/YhPBcgs9XrR2kYRAj7+AJ0RpYwsm7/4IlDFYJDzKyjW88iggACfaZ14 1o5r1qVWQ1HePuxplsuciQc=3D =3Dj7BD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----