Subject: bug#41511: [PATCH v2] Decode group name before matching against gnus-parameters

From: Łukasz Stelmach <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 09:29:07 +0200

Eric Abrahamsen <[email-masked]> writes:
> Łukasz Stelmach <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Group names in Gnus are stored and processed as strings of bytes
>> (e.g. "Wiadomo\305\233ci-\305\233mieci") while regular expressions in
>> gnus-parameters are encoded as multibyte strings (e.g. "Wiadomości-śmieci")
>> and matching the latter aginst the former doesn't work. Parameters set
>> for groups with non-ascii characters in their names cannot be retrieved.
>
> Group names in Gnus have been fully decoded strings for six months or
> more -- are you seeing this bug in master?

Shame on me. I created the patch on 26.1, cherry-picked it to master,
tested and assumed it was still needed because it applied without issues
and worked as expected.

This bug can be closed then.

Kind regards,
-- 
Miłego dnia,
Łukasz Stelmach