Re: Gnus changes in Emacs-Unicode branch

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> > I don't know what that means, but I _hope_ it has nothing to do with
>> > the Emacs internal encoding.
>> 
>> It shouldn't, but I haven't verified it.
>
> Then I don't understand the issue.  [Why is something utf-8 specific
> anyhow?  There shouldn't be anything special abut utf-8, which has
> been a problem with Gnus code before.]

USEFOR says to use UTF-8, so Gnus tries to decode group names as
UTF-8.  Configurable depending on hierarchy and method, of course.  If
the way Gnus achieves this depends on the internal Emacs encoding, I
couldn't tell.

>> > [This applies to Emacs.  As far as I can tell, XEmacs Mule lacks the
>> > necessary machinery to do things properly.]
>> 
>> It shouldn't be worse than it is today,
>
> I don't understand.  I'm talking about today (or maybe yesterday --
> Debian Woody).

Err, OK, I thought this was related to the Emacs Unicode branch only.
If the patch is against Oort and todays' (X)Emacs, and FWIW, I'd vote
for simply installing it.