>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

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

 >> I no longer have 19.34, but seem able to use a de-MULEtilated 20.2
 >> with .newsrc.eld written by the pretest.

 Lars> Do you have any group names with 8-bit characters?

I just created `nnvirtual:voilą' with the pretest version in unibyte
mode and read it OK in both the pretest and the MBSK 20.2 afterwards.
Since it appears in .newsrc.eld clearly as unibyte, I wouldn't expect
otherwise.  If I operate in multibyte mode I expect Emacs 19 or Emacs
20/MBSK to lose on the created files, but I don't do that.

What problem should I be trying to reproduce, exactly?
.