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

From: Eric Abrahamsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 07:43:08 -0700

close 41511
thanks

Łukasz Stelmach <[email-masked]> writes:

> 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.

Good news! You had me very worried for a second there :)