Re: accessing Gmail non-latin folders with nnimap

Re: accessing Gmail non-latin folders with nnimap

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Aug 05 2008, Daiki Ueno wrote:

> I have seen a problem you reported, and IIUC the problem has never been
> resolved.  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67144
>
> Today, I looked into the code and perhaps found a solution:
>
> (setq gnus-ignored-newsgroups "")
>
> (defadvice utf7-encode
>   (before fix-multibyteness-for-gnus activate)
>   (ad-set-arg 0 (string-as-multibyte (string-to-unibyte (ad-get-arg 0)))))
>
> With this setting, I can list/read groups which look like
> "[Gmail]/送信済みメール" (in Japanese).

Is it a bug in utf7.el or in Gmail?  Could you please provide a patch?

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: accessing Gmail non-latin folders with nnimap

[Daiki Ueno]

2008/8/8 Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>:

> Is it a bug in utf7.el or in Gmail?

Neither.  This is a bug of Gnus' multibyteness handling as usual.  Sigh.

> Could you please provide a patch?

Sorry, I have no time to do that.  Since the Gnus code is full of such
things, I guess there are probably dependencies of the buggy code.

Regards,
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Daiki Ueno