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Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:27:45 -0400
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    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?