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27.0.50; Complete process of decoding Gnus group names

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From: Deus Max <deusmax <at> gmx.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: 35383 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35383: 27.0.50; Complete process of decoding Gnus group names
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 17:44:39 +0300

On Fri, Jun 21 2019, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> On 06/20/19 22:01 PM, Deus Max wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 20 2019, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Deus Max" <deusmax <at> gmx.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>> : gnus-read-move-group-name: Couldnt create group Dias/｣ｺ�ｻｹ�ｹｱ哩ｷ
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh bother. Once again an area I was quite sure I've tested. Can you
>>>>> tell
>>>>> me which backend you're trying to create the group on?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much for testing!
>>>>>
>>>>> (And don't worry about sending the exact mis-encoded string, it's
>>>>> enough
>>>>> to know it's mis-encoded.)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Using the nnimap backend
>>>>
>>>> Found the bug, thanks! I have a few other patches I'm working on for
>>>> this branch, once those are done I'll push them all together. I
>>>> appreciate the help.
>>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
>>> Great !! Glad to help.
>>>
>>> Here's another bug:
>>>
>>> using (G r) "Rename group" works fine for an English group, but fails
>>> for other lang. characters (Greek as my test case):
>>>
>>> Here's a few samples:
>>>
>>>   GreeK: (fails)
>>>       Renaming group Σκύλος to ΣκύλοςΓατα...
>>>       Couldn’t rename group Σκύλος to ΣκύλοςΓατα
>>>
>>>   English: (OK)
>>>      Renaming group Dias/MyLifeAsDog to Dias/MyLifeAsRat...
>>>      Killed group Dias/MyLifeAsDog
>>>      Renaming group Dias/MyLifeAsDog to Dias/MyLifeAsRat...done
>>>
>>>
>>> Also multi-language names fail too:
>>>
>>>   English+Greek:
>>>      Renaming group Dias/MyLifeAsRat to Dias/MyLifeAsΦως...
>>>      Couldn’t rename group Dias/MyLifeAsRat to Dias/MyLifeAsΦως
>>
>> Okay, got that one too...
>
> All right, I've pushed these fixes and a bunch of other ones to
> scratch/gnus-decoded. If you're still interested in testing, you can
> pull in that branch, then either run "make bootstrap" or delete all the
> *elc files under lisp/gnus and run a regular "make", then try again.
>
> Unfortunately this led to so many new tweaks and fixes that I'm going to
> restart the clock on dogfooding and testing before it's ready to push.
>
> Eric

dogfooding ??

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