Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <E1KwS9Q-00074H-0v@fencepost.gnu.org>, "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     For instance, "% iconv -l", lists these variants for
>     iso-8859-1:

>     "ISO-8859-1", "ISO88591" "8859_1", "ISO_8859-1"

> The reading of coding system names could treat hyphens as optional,
> and could treat underscores as equivalent to hyphens.  Then
> with just two names, iso-8859-1 and 8859-1, it would recognize
> all of these and more.

>     In addition, we must add (partial) lowercase versions.
>     Partial means something like this: Iso ISo isO

> That's trivial, just ignore case when reading the coding system name.

You pay attention only to the case of reading the coding
system name.  But, that is not the point I'm arguing.  What
do you think about the case of writing codes as I wrote in
the previous mail?

> With that, people think that "utf8" is a valid coding system
> name, and will write a code something like this:
>   (decode-coding-string STR 'utf8)
> and found that it signals an error because utf8 is not
> statically declared as an alias.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp