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

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:50:37 +0900 Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> wrote: 

KH> In article <address@hidden>, "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:
>> What's the advantage of giving the user an error when he types `utf8'?
>> Why not do what he wants?

>> Which user interaction are you thinking of?

>> C-x RET c utf8 RET

KH> I think it's not good to give a user an incorrect impression
KH> that "utf8" is a correct name.  In IANA
KH> (http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets), there's no
KH> alias names for "UTF-8".

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?

Ted