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

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> > 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).

But, "for-charset" implies that it should be used for
mime-charset.  What is required is to find a coding system
by loose name matching (not necessarily a mime-charset
name), isn't it?

How about `resolve-coding-system-name'?

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