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Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> It seems that coding systems and MIME charsets are confused in
> mm-decode-coding-* and mm-encode-coding-*.

I don't see quite what's confusing if I've understood things
correctly, which I probably haven't.  :-)

A MULE "coding system" is the same thing as a MIME "charset".  

Isn't it?

If not, I can understand the confusion.

(Well, to be totally precise, MULE "coding systems" are a superset of
MIME "charsets", since you may consider, say, gzip to be a coding
system, but then you have to decode coding systems more than once,
which is something the MULE in Emacs 20.3 isn't well-disposed to
doing, so in practice they are the same.)

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