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


From: Kenichi Handa
Subject: Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:50:37 +0900
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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

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

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Kenichi Handa
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