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

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:15:30 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> So maybe display a message "This is not the real coding system name, use
>> `utf-8'" and also don't offer utf8 for completion?  Would that be
>> sufficient?

SM> I think the message is useless.  If we want to make it clear, then as
SM> Stephen suggests we should make TAB expand "utf8" to "utf-8", and make
SM> RET do the expansion and request confirmation.

SM> But to tell you the truth, that would be more work because it's not
SM> a standard form of completion.  Tho I guess we could come up with
SM> a special completion-style for it.

I think completing utf8 to utf-8 is the best solution as you and Stephen
described, so it's worth some code.

Ted