>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kai> Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm still not 100% clear on the "right" way to solve the >> coding-sytems problem. Ideally, I'd like the BBDB file to be >> coding-systems agnostic and still provide reasonable mapping back >> into the real world. Kai> Hm? What does it mean for a file to be coding system agnostic? Kai> Clearly, you have to select *some* encoding for the characters Kai> on disk. I guess (and you do, of course) the idea is to free data from the limitations of a coding-systems, to make it more versatile, so that I be able to address a person in an appropriate charset (sometimes I have occasions to write to one same person in koi8-r, sometimes in windows-1251, depending on the rules of a forum in question; it is posting-styles which should govern it, the character repertoire being exactly the same). Kai> Note that the buffer contents themselves are stored in the Kai> internal encoding anyway. So the buffers always use the same Kai> encoding. (If you have a Latin-1 file and an iso-2022-7bit Kai> file that contain the same characters, then reading both files Kai> into a buffer will result in the same buffer contents. Many Kai> problems in Emacs result from the fact that a Latin-1 ä and a Kai> Latin-2 ä are not considered the same character in Emacs. But Kai> this factoid is only relevant to European users, Asian users Kai> probably don't care at all.) If a Czech or Pole wants to supervise your postings, they probably would prefer to represent your name in iso-8859-2; you certainly are aware of the problem. [...] Kai> The easiest solution clearly is to just use the internal Kai> encoding for storing the file on disk. The problem with this Kai> solution is also clear: many users do not normally use that Kai> encoding for their files, so the .bbdb file will have a Kai> different encoding than other files. This might cause Kai> surprises when .bbdb is accessed by other programs such as Kai> grep. That's why UTF-8 seems to be preferable over Mule, given that unicode-aware grep seems to be more readily available than a Mule-aware grep -- and this leads to your next option: Kai> Another possibility is to save .bbdb like any other file. [...] -- Sergei ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
