diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-msg.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-msg.el
index 66501ef7d5..0e1ba70d1e 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-msg.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-msg.el
@@ -1584,10 +1584,7 @@ gnus-inews-do-gcc
 			(message-tokenize-header gcc " ,\n\t")))
 	  ;; Copy the article over to some group(s).
 	  (while (setq group (pop groups))
-	    (setq method (gnus-inews-group-method group)
-		  group (encode-coding-string
-			 group
-			 (gnus-group-name-charset method group)))
+	    (setq method (gnus-inews-group-method group))
 	    (unless (gnus-check-server method)
 	      (error "Can't open server %s" (if (stringp method) method
 					      (car method))))