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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:21:53 +0900
> From: Katsumi Yamaoka <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> IIRC, nntp servers understand utf-8 encoded group names.  So,
> someone might have considered making Gnus use them internally is
> convenient to communicate with nntp servers.

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.