Re: Fixing Gnus, and string encoding question

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 19:22:18 -0700
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> > (decode-coding-string
> >  "nnml:\343\203\206\343\202\271\343\203\210" 'utf-8) ;=> "nnml:テスト"
> >
> > (decode-coding-string
> >  (symbol-name (read "nnml:\343\203\206\343\202\271\343\203\210"))
> >  'utf-8) ;=> "nnml:テスト"
> 
> No, unfortunately -- that would make everything much easier. Eventually
> the idea will be to decode the strings into plain utf-8-emacs, but for
> now I'm stuck keeping them in this weird half-state. I literally need a
> conversion between the two versions above.

Why do you need to keep these strings undecoded?