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Subject: Re: corruption of ".newsrc.eld" in Japanese XEmacs-20/mule
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From: Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen <petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Date: 24 Jul 1997 14:54:02 +0900
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>>>>> "P" == P E Jareth Hein <jareth@camelot-soft.com> writes:

    P> Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

    >> Jens-U H Petersen <petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:
    >> 
    >> > A Japanese XEmacs user reported to me that the ".newsrc.eld"
    >> > corruption problem only occurs when there are say newgroups
    >> > containing non-ascii text... how dear, how did I get one of
    >> > those.
    >> 
    >> If Gnus MIME encoded all stuff it puts into .overview,
    >> etc. everything would be O.K. I believe.
    >> 
    >> > Anyway removing the garbage newsgroup from ".newsrc.eld" by hand,
    >> > solved the problem for me.  Though the original (unlikely) bug still
    >> > stands in some sense, since the corruption to the file under
    >> > (save-buffer) is at a different place.
    >> 
    >> The .newsrc.eld should probably be saved with 'binary coding-system.
    >> I think the .overview files are already protected.

    P> Interestingly enough, I just had the same problem with BBDB (sticking
    P> in a SJIS shiftout code at the end of a line).  Should this be
    P> protected as well?

Yes, I've had that too _and_ also in gnus nnfolder's!!  I would like
to get my hands on this problem: but have no idea yet how to reproduce
it systematically.

Jens

