Re: `.newsrc.eld' saves chinese group name in wrong coding

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Oct 19 2006, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

> Gnus uses utf-8 encoded non-ASCII group names internally, those
> encoded names are saved in the .newsrc.eld file, and they are
> decoded by utf-8 when displaying.  I had no problem when I once
> tried nnrss groups with Japanese names.  So, I cannot imagine
> what is happening with Zhang Wei, sorry.
[...]
> (push '("\\`nndoc\\(?:\\+[^:]+\\)?:")
>       gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist)
>
> In addition, just now I noticed it is insufficient to solve the
> problem.  Maybe we need to do the fix here and there in Gnus to
> enable it to work with non-ASCII nndoc group names.

The default value of `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' is ((".*"
. utf-8)), so it should cover all groups, IIUC.  Or am I
misunderstanding the issue?

Why is setting it to nil for nndoc necessary?  Is nndoc handled
differently than other backends?

Bye, Reiner.
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