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Re: [PATCH] Gnus; Restore multi encoding support for NNTP
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LdBeth |
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Re: [PATCH] Gnus; Restore multi encoding support for NNTP |
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Sat, 01 Jan 2022 16:34:12 +0800 |
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>>>>> In <83tueoeyby.fsf@gnu.org>
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> 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.
Eli> If by "using UTF-8 internally" you mean the internal representation of
Eli> buffer text and strings, then encoding is still needed for correct
Eli> handling of codepoints outside of Unicode.
Gnus already uses `utf-8-emacs' coding to save the newsrc.eld file for
a while. According to the Elisp manual, that is the coding system
that can handle the internal codepoints used by Emacs.
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LDB