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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:02:00 -0400
> 
>     If one uses the default multibyte session, using unibyte strings is
>     prone to subtle problems as described in this thread.
> 
> I was not following the thread.  Could you explain the problem
> that was encountered?

Gnus stored a name of a news group in encoded form.  Manipulating that
encoded name as a normal Emacs string caused some weird problem (I no
more remember the details, but I'm hardly surprised that it happened).