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On 25 Apr 2001, Bj=F8rn Mork wrote:

> Gnus should never encode a newsgroup name. It's not text. There is
> no need to worry about charsets and encodings. Just use whatever
> octet sequence the news server sent in the active list.

Hm?  What if the user enters a value?  Suppose the hk.* hierarchy uses
the GB encoding by default, but somebody wishes to post in UTF-8?
(Purely hypothetical example.)

kai
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