error: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument characterp 116)

[dragomir kollaric]

What could cause the following error when I start gnus (5.10.X as well as
cvs-gnus) in XEmacs 21.4.15)? 

Signaling: (wrong-type-argument characterp 116)
  mm-char-int(116)
  gnus-continuum-version()
  byte-code("..." [emacs-version gnus-group-line-format-spec 
gnus-summary-dummy-line-format-spec gnus-summary-line-format-spec version 
gnus-version gnus-continuum-version group "%M%S%p%P%5y: %(%g%)\n" summary-dummy 
"*  %(:                          :%) %S\n" summary "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: 
%-23,23f%]%) %s\n"] 7)
  (defvar gnus-format-specs (byte-code "ÄBÅÆ BÇÈ       EÉÊ\nEËÌE¯‡" 
[emacs-version gnus-group-line-format-spec gnus-summary-dummy-line-format-spec 
gnus-summary-line-format-spec version gnus-version gnus-continuum-version group 
"%M%S%p%P%5y: %(%g%)\n" summary-dummy "*  %(:                          :%) 
%S\n" summary "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n"] 7) 
("/home/oswald/gnus-XEmacs/lisp/gnus-spec.elc" . 3860))
  load-internal("gnus-spec" nil t nil binary)
  load("gnus-spec" nil t nil)
  require(gnus-spec)
  byte-code("..." [require gnus gnus-win gnus-int gnus-spec gnus-range 
gnus-util autoload message-make-date "message" gnus-agent-read-servers-validate 
"gnus-agent" gnus-agent-save-local gnus-agent-possibly-alter-active] 3)
  load-internal("gnus-start" nil nil nil binary)
  load("gnus-start" nil nil nil)
  gnus-1(nil nil nil)
  gnus(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus)
  command-execute(gnus t)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)



Dragomir Kollaric: 
who admits he stole his signature from someone else :-) 
-- 
Strange it works but we don't know why: 
it's Windows it does not have bugs only features;
the _most_ often _heard_ lie of the 20th. century, 
will it  _continue_ in the third  Millennium?