Dave Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Xavier Maillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> So what is the *best* or the *recommended* coding system to use for
>> BBDB knowing that my contacts are world wide.
>
> The one that's set in recent versions (as far as I know),
> i.e. `iso-2022-7bit', at least if you want to be at all portable
> between Emacs and XEmacs as some people apparently do. The _correct_
> one in Emacs 21 is really `emacs-mule', as etc/MORE.STUFF says, but
> `iso-2022-7bit' happens to DTRT with eight-bit characters.
Do you think the following code and comment in bbdb.el is correct?
;; iso-2022-7bit should be OK (but not optimal for Emacs, at least --
;; emacs-mule would be better) with both Emacs 21 and XEmacs. Emacs
;; 22 will really need utf-8-emacs.
(defconst bbdb-file-coding-system (if (fboundp 'coding-system-p)
(if (coding-system-p 'utf-8-emacs)
'utf-8-emacs
'iso-2022-7bit))
"Coding system used for reading and writing `bbdb-file'.
This should not be changed by users.")
Maybe this explains why I'm getting utf-8-emacs... I'm using the
unicode branch from CVS Emacs: GNU Emacs 22.0.0.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu,
X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2004-02-11 on confusibombus
I'd just like to see both code and comment fixed such that I can
understand it a few months from now. Can you suggest a change?
Alex.
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