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Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:02:56 -0400
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    Well, no, I think it is not.  AFAIK only one of "iso-8859-1" and
    "iso8859-1" is registered, but Emacs uses the former exclusively, and
    X11 only the latter (in XLFDs).

I think it would be better if Emacs accepted either form, if specified.