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

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On 03/27/19 14:27 PM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> On 03/27/19 13:54 PM, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:44:32 -0700, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>> Thanks for this report. When you have a moment will you please try the
>>> attached patch and see if it fixes the problem?
>>
>> Works great.  Now I can enter and read the nnml:テスト group.
>> Thank you.  But there seem to be some more fix needed.
>>
>> The group level of nnml:テスト is 1 and there are some unread
>> articles in it, however the group is not listed in the Group
>> buffer when I launch Gnus by `C-u 1 M-x gnus RET' (it also
>> happened when I worked on non-ASCII group names years ago, but
>> I don't recall how I fixed it, sorry).  Typing L helps it.
>
> I think I've found the source of the problem. The error you and others
> are seeing comes when the group has an entry in gnus-newsrc-hashtb (ie,
> you're subscribed to the group) but not in gnus-active-hashtb (Gnus
> can't tell if the group has articles).

Okay, it might be as simple as the attached patch, applied to current
master. Basically this forces nnmail to always write the group names as
strings, which are then read correctly later on.

Also cc'ing Bastien and Adam, who have been very helpful with
road-testing.

Thanks to all,
Eric

0001-WIP-on-nnmail-group-names.patch
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