From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67622 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: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:01:25 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224357093 21308 80.91.229.12 (18 Oct 2008 19:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:11:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 18 21:12:30 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 1KrH4i-0008DY-LB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:02:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50319 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrH3d-0006Oo-Ro for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KrH3L-0006JN-2j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:01:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KrH3K-0006Iz-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:01:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40144 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrH3J-0006Iu-Ud for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:01:30 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:55677 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KrH3I-0000HS-8t; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:01:28 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsQEAC7P+UhMCpQ6/2dsb2JhbACBcr8bg2yBCQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,440,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="28555299" Original-Received: from 76-10-148-58.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([76.10.148.58]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 18 Oct 2008 15:01:26 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D5C20B4111; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:01:25 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:59:20 -0400") 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:104598 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67622 Archived-At: >> What's the advantage of giving the user an error when he types `utf8'? >> Why not do what he wants? > We can do that without adding a coding-system-alias. > How do you propose to do it? Depends on the particular case you're thinking of. I already proposed mm-charset-synonym-alist for the case of charsets in MIME messages. Stefan