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Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> Is anyone using group names with non-ascii characters?  There could be
> some bugs in handling the path names and the entries in the .active
> files.  I guess nnimap supports group names with iso-8859-1
> characters.  Has anyone tested to use agent or cache with those
> groups?

I've used nnimap+agent with latin-1 group names, but that was ~6
months ago or so and I didn't test specifically that latin-1
characters worked.  I think it did, though.  The only reference I
could find in my .gnus is

(setq gnus-startup-file-coding-system 'iso-8859-1)

(On a different topic, I think the default of that variable should be
`mule' or something that can hold all sorts of characters.  Limiting
group names to 7-bit ascii by default feels wrong.)