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Subject: Re: corruption of ".newsrc.eld" in Japanese XEmacs-20/mule
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The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gnu.emacs.gnus as well.

[Another bug.  I hit S W on this message and didn't get the
newsgroup.  Could that be because of nnml mail group parameter
interference?]

Jens-U H Petersen <petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:

> A Japanese XEmacs user reported to me that the ".newsrc.eld"
> corruption problem only occurs when there are say newgroups containing 
> non-ascii text... how dear, how did I get one of those.

If Gnus MIME encoded all stuff it puts into .overview, etc. everything
would be O.K. I believe.

> Anyway removing the garbage newsgroup from ".newsrc.eld" by hand,
> solved the problem for me.  Though the original (unlikely) bug still
> stands in some sense, since the corruption to the file under
> (save-buffer) is at a different place.

The .newsrc.eld should probably be saved with 'binary coding-system.
I think the .overview files are already protected.

