From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67646 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa 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 11:50:37 +0900 Message-ID: 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> <87wsg345oo.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224557462 28185 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2008 02:51:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:51:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, Reiner.Steib@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 04:52:00 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 1Ks7Lj-0004Xd-Qp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:52:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47435 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ks7Ke-0000Cl-Fv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:50:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ks7KZ-0000CW-MA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:50:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ks7KX-0000CK-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50149 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ks7KX-0000CH-3p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:50:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.133]:62066) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ks7KV-0006B9-NQ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp (rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp [150.29.254.115]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id m9L2ocjB006690; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:50:38 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from smtp3.aist.go.jp by rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id m9L2ocOY025670; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:50:38 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp3.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id m9L2ob5o026262; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:50:37 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken.m17n.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ks7KP-0004yU-My; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:50:37 +0900 In-reply-to: (rms@gnu.org) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/23.0.60 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 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:104710 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67646 Archived-At: In article , "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > 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? > C-x RET c utf8 RET I think it's not good to give a user an incorrect impression that "utf8" is a correct name. In IANA (http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets), there's no alias names for "UTF-8". --- Kenichi Handa handa@ni.aist.go.jp