From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67640 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:00:55 +0200 Message-ID: <87wsg345oo.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <87iqruvs19.fsf@jidanni.org> <86od1mj3z2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86od1lg3xq.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d4i1iqpq.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <86k5c9fzm9.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878wsph5xr.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224536227 11186 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2008 20:57:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:57:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16090@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Oct 20 22:57:59 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 1KrxDo-00063l-Sw for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:03:09 +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 1KrxC3-0006Zb-86; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:01:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KrxC2-0006ZR-7W for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:01:18 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KrxBz-0001Wm-IT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:01:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KrxC6-0006pk-00 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:01:22 +0200 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m9KG0xGC026120; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:01:00 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2483E1C7CB; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:00:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.;yo.b yq4$p;ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Followup-To: Richard Stallman , ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:27:45 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-CollegeOfNewCaledonia-Metrics: poseidon 1189; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67640 gmane.emacs.devel:104689 Archived-At: On Thu, Oct 16 2008, Richard M. Stallman wrote: > Such aliases aren't much use and they become annoying duplicates when > listing coding systems. > > That is no reason to omit the aliases people use. > You could add a way to mark aliases so they don't appear in that list. > > What's the advantage of giving the user an error when he types `utf8'? > Why not do what he wants? Which user interaction are you thinking of? (If there's a broader need or expectation for this, we would probably have got some user request already for Emacs 21 and 22.) As mentioned before, for the initial problem we already have `mm-charset-synonym-alist' (for Gnus or maybe other packages). Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/