>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> writes:
Kai> Once upon a time, BBDB used one method for the coding system Kai> for .bbdb. Now there is the variable bbdb-file-coding-system. I don't have it. Kai> What's the right setting for this variable to provide safe Kai> migration with no data corruption? No idea. Kai> Stupid me, I fooled around with things. But other people are Kai> having problems because Emacs can't save the Latin-9 ß from my Kai> name in their Latin-1 .bbdb file. Kai> So I would like to find a way that BBDB loads the file in the Kai> old coding system (whatever it was, probably Latin-1 because I Kai> have (set-language-environment "Latin-1") in the init files), Kai> and then saves it in a better encoding (utf-8? emacs-mule?). Some time ago I considered (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.bbdb\\>" 'utf-8) but I resigned, because there are people who I have to send mail to in koi8-r, some other who expect latin-3, some other who can read UTF-8 ... and I believe that at least at that period it was not possible to convert utf8 -> koi8 (in oc-unicode; though it was possible to convert the other way around: koi -> utf). So, I've remained with the raw encoding, but these are incompatible between the Emacsen (20/21). This is why I avoid emacs-21: it spoils .bbdb so badly that opening a gnus article crashes emacs-20.7 (which I still prefer for some reasons). Kai> Is this possible? It would be nice if I could have .bbdb in the portable and standard utf-8, provided that gnus could honor posting styles and convert utf-8 to the desired encoding. Or is it already possible? [...] -- Sergei _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
