Re: [PATCH] Gnus; Restore multi encoding support for NNTP

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2022 10:11:12 +0800
> From: LdBeth <andpuke@foxmail.com>
> Cc: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>, LdBeth <andpuke@foxmail.com>,
>  Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> I have now figured how to write text property into .newsrc.eld: Gnus
> does extra UTF-8 encoding when save group names, since it is now
> already using UTF-8 encoding internally, I think it would be safe to
> just remove that.

If by "using UTF-8 internally" you mean the internal representation of
buffer text and strings, then encoding is still needed for correct
handling of codepoints outside of Unicode.