Re: `.newsrc.eld' saves chinese group name in wrong coding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,
>         address@hidden,  address@hidden
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:19:43 -0400
> 
> > I'd say this design decision will certainly cause subtle bugs, such as
> > the one we are discussing in this thread.  I suggest to modify the
> > design to not use encoded strings internally.
> 
> It could be, although it would make sense to manipulate group names in
> "encoded" form, in the sense of "not decoded".

It could ``make sense'', but it's IMO a bad idea, since, as we both
know, Emacs is not well suited to handling unibyte strings.