Re: `.newsrc.eld' saves chinese group name in wrong coding

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <u3b9jqyod.fsf@gnu.org> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:21:53 +0900
>> From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
>> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, id.brep@gmail.com, ding@gnus.org
>>
>> IIRC, nntp servers understand utf-8 encoded group names.  So,
>> someone might have considered making Gnus use them internally is
>> convenient to communicate with nntp servers.

> I'd say this design decision will certainly cause subtle bugs, such as
> the one we are discussing in this thread.  I suggest to modify the
> design to not use encoded strings internally.

I hastened to change the nndoc code so as to use encoded group
names but I agree with you.  Though to implement it will take
efforts and a long time, I think it is a subject to have to be
solved in the future anyway.

BTW, I realized that I misunderstood Zhang Wei's case.  The
group name is encoded by gb2312, not utf-8, as Handa-san wrote.
It might be the default of the nntp server that Zhang Wei uses,
or the news administrator might have done something wrong.  If
it is utf-8, Gnus should work (in other words, there is currently
no way to enable Gnus to handle gb2312 encoded group names).