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> Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>,  emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org,
> 	  id.brep@gmail.com,  ding@gnus.org
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:19:43 -0400
> 
> > 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.
> 
> It could be, although it would make sense to manipulate group names in
> "encoded" form, in the sense of "not decoded".

It could ``make sense'', but it's IMO a bad idea, since, as we both
know, Emacs is not well suited to handling unibyte strings.