non-ascii characters in score file (emacs 21.1 vs. emacs 20.7)

[Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net>]

Hi,

normally I use Gnus (from CVS, last update on Feb 24) with Emacs 21.1.
Sometimes I use Emacs 20.7 with the same installation of Gnus. For
both, I have `(set-language-environment "Latin-1")'. With Emacs 21.1 I
added a the following score entry (using "10Last" in the summary
buffer):

| ("from"
|   ("die Gei\216ßel der Galaxis" -10 730911 s)
             ^^^^ a single character

AFAICS, the original From-line was encoded correctly:
`=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gei=DFel?='. But, when I use Gnus with Emacs 20.7, I
get:

,----[ *Messages* ]
| Loading gnus-score...done
| Problem with score file /home/dept/ste/News/score/all.SCORE
| Scoring...
`----

... and other entries from the score file are ignored. I didn't get a
backtrace, but the error comes from gnus-score.el:

,----[ gnus-score.el ]
|   ;; Only do the loading if the score file isn't empty.
|   (when (save-excursion (re-search-forward "[()0-9a-zA-Z]" nil t))
|     (setq alist
|           (condition-case ()
|               (read (current-buffer))
|             (error
|              (gnus-error 3.2 "Problem with score file %s" file))))))
`----

So I did (read (current-buffer)) manually and I get a backtrace:

,----
| Signaling: (error "Invalid character: 07537, 3935, 0xf5f")
|   read(#<buffer *foo*>)
|   eval((read (current-buffer)))
|   eval-expression((read (current-buffer)) nil)
|   call-interactively(eval-expression)
`----

Is there some variable I should set? Is it necessary to specify the
coding system in the score files? Shouldn't this happen automatically
because it may also happen in files from adaptive scoring?

Bye, Reiner.
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