On 28 May 2002 18:34:39 +0700, Sergei Pokrovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> >>>>> "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.
> 
> 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).

The map for utf-8 in emacs 21.1 isn't complete for CJK, so I'm
using iso-2022-jp to accomodate the names of Japanese friends,
and this coding also seems to include ß. 

I don't have too many character set problems running the latest
release of bbdb with 21.1.

Chris

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