bug#33653: 27.0.50; Change Gnus obarrays-as-hash-tables into real hash tables

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On 03/24/19 23:29 PM, Bastien wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> The bummer is that you don't get an error until you run Gnus, so it just
>> looks like I broke Gnus :(
>
> I hope not!  :)
>
> I have not followed this change.
> Can it corrupt the .newsrc.eld file?

Worst come to worst it will write non-ascii group names as unibyte when
they should be utf-8, or else the other way around. I thought I could
avoid dealing with this question for now, and just preserve Gnus'
original method of saving group names, but it looks like I may have
forced the issue instead...