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Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard
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Kenichi Handa |
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Re: gnus should accept UTF8 even if UTF-8 is standard |
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Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:51:24 +0900 |
It seems that this thread is left unsolved.
In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > 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.
I've just installed a new function `coding-system-from-name'
and use it to fix broken rmail-get-coding-system.
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