From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Deus Max <deusmax@gmx.com>
Cc: 39026-done@debbugs.gnu.org, 39026@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39026: 27.0.50; gnus-group-decoded-name needs running gnus
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:54:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftghlkcs.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kwz6pnh.fsf@aia00054aia.gr> (Deus Max's message of "Mon, 13 Jan 2020 22:57:06 +0200")
On 01/13/20 22:57 PM, Deus Max wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13 2020, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>>
>> Yeah, to be honest, I don't really know the point of the
>> gnus-group-name-charset-* stuff, and am mostly unwilling to mess with
>> anything I don't really understand. But if those variables have been
>> set, we'd need to know a group's method, and it really isn't possible to
>> get a group's method for sure unless Gnus is up and running.
>>
>> In fact, I suspect we could simply dump all the group-name-charset/group
>> decoding stuff, stop encoding/decoding altogether, but I don't know how
>> I would prove that wouldn't cause problems.
>>
>> Can you just not use gnus-group-decoded-name? As I mentioned, decoding
>> as 'utf-8-emacs should work fine.
>>
>> Eric
>
> Yes, I agree with you and will take your advice.
> Thanks for discussing the issue.
>
> For my needs, I will just replace gnus-group-name-decode with:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (defun gnus-recent-decode-utf8 (string &optional charset)
> "Decode a gnus-group name.
> Replaces `gnus-group-name-decode' for decoding group names.
> Default utf-8-emacs CHARSET unless provided otherwise."
> (decode-coding-string string (or charset 'utf-8-emacs) t))
> #+end_src
That looks fine to me. Sorry I don't have a more definitive solution for
this.
> I guess you may close the bug.
Done.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-08 2:47 bug#39026: 27.0.50; gnus-group-decoded-name needs running gnus Deus Max
2020-01-08 19:09 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-01-09 13:22 ` Deus Max
2020-01-13 18:51 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-01-13 20:57 ` Deus Max
2020-01-14 22:54 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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