Urban Boquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ;;; Avoid BBDB getting confused by 8 bit characters:
> (if (>= emacs-major-version 20)
> (add-to-list 'file-coding-system-alist
> '("/\\.bbdb\\'" iso-8859-1 . iso-8859-1)))
>
> Unfortunately I think that you need to clean up your .bbdb file "by
> hand", i.e., visit it as a regular file and delete all the nonsense
> AKAs. Also make sure that you really see the 8 bit characters, and not
> octal escapes, if you do there is something wrong with the way Emacs
> handles your buffer.
This seems to work like a charm, thank you. I did see octal
escapes in the .bbdb file, though. They're gone now.
This also solved a problem I had with completion of names
containing 8-bit characters.
> Be especially careful to delete everything
> containing the infamous \201 character.
I had a bunch of those as well -- what are they about?
Niklas
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