From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67670 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:15:30 -0400 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> <86wsg2546l.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224681384 6020 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2008 13:16:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:16:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 22 15:17:22 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 1KsdZx-0005ev-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:16:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44681 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsdYp-0000bv-Q4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsdYk-0000bi-Fw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsdYi-0000bL-P5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:15:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49250 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsdYi-0000bH-GT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:61579 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KsdYi-0002r4-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:15:32 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtoEAKvE/khFxLrB/2dsb2JhbACBcsRKg0+BCw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,464,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="28706955" Original-Received: from 69-196-186-193.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.186.193]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 22 Oct 2008 09:15:30 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BBEFB8101; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:15:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <86wsg2546l.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:00:18 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:104840 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67670 Archived-At: > So maybe display a message "This is not the real coding system name, use > `utf-8'" and also don't offer utf8 for completion? Would that be > sufficient? I think the message is useless. If we want to make it clear, then as Stephen suggests we should make TAB expand "utf8" to "utf-8", and make RET do the expansion and request confirmation. But to tell you the truth, that would be more work because it's not a standard form of completion. Tho I guess we could come up with a special completion-style for it. Stefan