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Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:

> Am i right that mule will _by design_ interpret combinations of 8-bit
> octets which form multibyte characters as multibyte characters in a
> multibyte buffer regardless of the coding system settings?

Yes, some Emacs MULE guru confirmed it in an earlier posting to this
list, I think.

> In this case, it seems that ALL gnus buffers which are supposed to
> contain arbitrary 8-bit text must be unibyte.

If this can't be done (because making a buffer unibyte is some kind
of global thing), one could add a special coding system designed for
encoding raw bytes in the range 16#80# .. 16#FF#.