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Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard
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> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:21:25 +0900
> Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
> 	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, ding@gnus.org, rms@gnu.org
> 
> Perhaps something like `canonicalize-coding-system-name' would be good.

That implies that the return value would be a string, not the coding
system itself.  I suggest we return the coding system (or nil), not
just the name.

Some time back in this thread I suggested `coding-system-for-charset'
(since the argument strings will be charsets).