GNU bug report logs - #35383
27.0.50; Complete process of decoding Gnus group names

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: yamaoka <at> jpl.org, 35383 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35383: 27.0.50; Complete process of decoding Gnus group names
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 20:44:39 +0300

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
> Cc: yamaoka <at> jpl.org,  35383 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:19:01 -0700
> 
> > You could give up the cookie.  It is only important if the file is
> > visited by "C-x C-f" etc., which will be rare.  So having a cookie is
> > a nicety, not a requirement.
> 
> Right, I think that was the conclusion. But do you have any other advice
> about making sure that files previously written as 'raw-text are read
> correctly by the updated code? It works on my machine™, but is that just
> because my locale is unicode?

It depends on whether the buffer saved to that file included raw-bytes
(it generally shouldn't).  If not, then there will be no problem.  If
there were raw-bytes, you cannot win, so I wouldn't bother about that
case.

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