Re: Gnus; Restore multi encoding support for NNTP

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

LdBeth <andpuke@foxmail.com> writes:

> The basic plan is to restore the option to decode group names based on
> `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist'. The reason having this custom
> variable is because a server could use different incompatible charset
> especially when group names are in different languages.  It seems this
> variable is not been used in else where except for decode group name
> been displayed in article buffer.

[...]

> The middle way is keep the mapping relation in an alist or hashtable,
> and convert back to the original encoding for communicate the server.

Can't we just use `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' directly and
decode based on that when reading in the groups list from the backend?
(It's been some years since I looked at that code; adding Eric to the
CCs.)

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