Re: Fixing Gnus, and string encoding question

[Andreas Schwab]

On Apr 05 2019, Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> wrote:

> The problem is that non-ASCII group names are now strings, and are
> coming into the system in two different ways: written into .newsrc.eld
> with `print-escape-nonascii' set to t,

Why do you need to use the escaped representation?

> The group name is read from file with `set-buffer-multibyte' nil,

Why can't you decode the file contents first, before passing it to read?

Andreas.

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