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>>>>> "HN" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

 HN> `read-coding-system' is the workhorse behind `(interactive "z")',
 HN> FWIW.

But coding systems aren't charsets, of course.  OTOH, how are you
supposed to MIME multiple MULE charsets in a region anyway?  Is the
buffer's coding system (for write?) actually the relevant thing?

BTW, has the doc for `coding-system-get' been noticed in this
connexion?

 - Function: coding-system-get CODING-SYSTEM PROPERTY
     This function returns the specified property of the coding system
     CODING-SYSTEM.  Most coding system properties exist for internal
     purposes, but one that you might find useful is `mime-charset'.
     That property's value is the name used in MIME for the character
     coding which this coding system can read and write.  Examples:

          (coding-system-get 'iso-latin-1 'mime-charset)
               => iso-8859-1
          (coding-system-get 'iso-2022-cn 'mime-charset)
               => iso-2022-cn
          (coding-system-get 'cyrillic-koi8 'mime-charset)
               => koi8-r

     The value of the `mime-charset' property is also defined as an
     alias for the coding system.

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