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

[tomas]

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:23:55PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> > How about `guess-coding-system-from-string' (or an abbreviation, but I
> > would prefer it be inconvenient to provide the guessing functionality)?
> 
> That seems reasonable (though "-from-string" seems superfluous, given
> the argument is ... a string).

Heh. But this would be ambiguous. You might be feeding the function a
string encoded in some unknown coding system and expecting it to guess
what this is (e.g. using some statistical magic). The sister of
guess-coding-system-from-buffer (as long as I might be baking
pies-in-the-sky ;-)

Regards
- -- tomás
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