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


From: Stephen J. Turnbull
Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:06:15 +0900

Miles Bader writes:
 > "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).

No, the argument is a Lisp object, as always. :-)

The superfluity is intentional, as I mentioned.  Probably it's not
necessary to discourage its use, though, people will only go to the
trouble of using it in `read-coding-system' (interactive Emacs users
are not lusers :-) and in MUAs.






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