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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:21:25 +0900
> Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>       Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 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).