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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>         address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:32:17 +0900
> 
> 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'?

Canonicalize is better, IMO.  But again, I think the function should
return a symbol, not its name (which is a string).  There's no need to
request that users intern the string.