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Subject: Re: corruption of ".newsrc.eld" in Japanese XEmacs-20/mule
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From: jareth@camelot-soft.com (P. E. Jareth Hein)
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of "15 Jul 1997 02:58:10 -0700"
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Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> 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.

Interestingly enough, I just had the same problem with BBDB (sticking
in a SJIS shiftout code at the end of a line).  Should this be
protected as well?

--
Jareth
jareth@camelot-soft.com

