1. Start with -Q 2. M-x gnus 3. Browse nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.devel 4. Try to open article 88513 , which looks like this in the default Gnus setup: . [ 37: Vinicius Jose Latorre ] Re: 23.0.60; whitespace.el mishap This is a MIME/multipart message with HTML, and trying to open it results in "require: Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil". The lisp backtrace is attached (it contains bytecode). This does not happen in pre-unicode-2 CVS Emacs.