If I create a new nnml group with a non-ASCII name: `G m Æblegrød RET nnml RET' The group turns up in the Group buffer like this blegrd The problem is of course that Gnus thinks the name is unibyte (utf-8 specifically). We could fix it by setting `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' to nil, but then names of nntp groups which really _are_ unibyte would be wrong. I think it's a big mess that the list of newsgroups (`gnus-newsrc-alist', `gnus-newsrc-hashtb' etc.) can contain a mix of unibyte and multibyte names. It also breaks `j' (gnus-group-jump-to-group) in the Group buffer and probably more stuff. I don't see any easy solution, though.