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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Also IIUC, a multibyte buffer cannot hold any arbitrary byte
> sequence without modification, so the buffer that receives the bytes
> from the IMAP server is a unibyte buffer.  So, how do we get from
> the byte sequence to the decoded character sequence?

A multibyte buffer in Emacs 21.0.90 (Mule 5.0) can hold.  But Emacs
20.7 or earlier can't. Try (insert ?\201 ?\337).

Therefore, we can not expect Gnus doing this without using unibyte
buffers before Emacs 21 is prevalent.

ShengHuo