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

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> > Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:21:53 +0900
> > From: Katsumi Yamaoka <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > IIRC, nntp servers understand utf-8 encoded group names.  So,
> > someone might have considered making Gnus use them internally is
> > convenient to communicate with nntp servers.

> 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.

I agree.  Keeping around encoded strings quite easily leads
to bugs.  String/buffer should be encoded only just before
writing out.

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Kenichi Handa
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