Re: [BUG]What does this mean:"Mention that multibyte characters

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Oct 14 2004, zrr wrote:

>     Perhaps I had ignored an important factor in my first bug
>     report, that my emacs is emacs-unicode-2 branch, because same
>     version Gnus works perfectly in emacs trunk.

That is probably an important point.

>        * gnus-sum.el: Mention that multibyte characters don't work as marks.
>
>     What does this mean? Does it indicate following lines in the
>     'gnus-sum.el'?

Yes.

>       ;; FIXME: Although the custom type is `character' for the following variables,
>       ;; using multibyte characters (Latin-1, UTF-8) doesn't work.  -- rs
>
>     however, I have never customized this variables.

I have added this remark.  If you change e.g. `gnus-unseen-mark' to
"·", it won't work, see
<URL:http://thread.gmane.org/v91xqb4gau.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>.

>     I managed to load the old 'gnus-sum.el', as I expected, it
>     works.  I also performed a diff on two version 'gnus-sum.el' and
>     find out this problem is caused by the change of
>     'gnus-update-summary-mark-positions'. 

Could you please be more specific, which change you mean and which
version worked.  And please tell us the Gnus+Emacs for each.

I don't know if your problems are related to my "FIXME" comment.

Okay, I checked you previous report
(http://thread.gmane.org/m2pt3ryt2b.fsf@yahoo.com.cn).  The screenshot
<URL:http://ftp.cdaan.com/sy/light/gnus-1.png> suggest that you have
some non-ASCII character as `gnus-WhatEver-mark' (in the first two
lines), `gnus-no-mark' probably.

,----[ C-h v gnus-no-mark RET ]
| gnus-no-mark's value is 32
| 
| *Mark used for articles that have no other secondary mark.
`----

Show us the output of `C-h v gnus-no-mark RET', please.

>     Although there are very few people use unicode-2 branch now,  I
>     think this bug should be solved sooner or later.

Of course it should.  If it only happens in the Unicode branch, it
would be better to report the problem on emacs-devel, too (or the
Emacs Unicode List?  I dunno if this list still exists).

Bye, Reiner.
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