Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard

[Stefan Monnier]

>     Depends on the particular case you're thinking of.  I already proposed
>     mm-charset-synonym-alist for the case of charsets in MIME messages.

> That would work only when the character set is specified in a MIME
> message, and only for Gnus.  It would be much better to fix the 
> same problem in a general way that applies for all the places
> in Emacs that you can specify a coding system.  Why fix just
> part of the problem?

Yes, we should probably provide at least a function that we could call
`get-coding-system' and which would take a string and return
a coding-systm or nil.  It would then take care of ignoring case
differences a well as addition/removal of dash/underscore/etc.. chars.


        Stefan