Thanks for your repsonse Alex, the problem appears to have been
(Bresolved, at least for the time being.
(B
(B>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
(B
(B Alex> Selected encoding mule-utf-8-unix disagrees with
(B Alex> iso-2022-7bit-unix specified by file contents. Really save
(B Alex> (else edit coding cookies and try again)? (y or n)
(B
(B Alex> Weird. I do have (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) in my
(B Alex> .emacs, however... So I deleted the cookie and saved, and
(B Alex> reopened the file. Yep, was read as utf8 ('u' in the
(B Alex> modeline). Then I changed the file coding system using C-c
(B Alex> C-m f to iso-2022-jp, and saved, and reopened the file.
(B Alex> Yep, was read as iso-2022-jp ('J' in the modeline). Added
(B Alex> the cookie again, saved, reopened, added an empty line,
(B Alex> saved, reopened. Seems to work!
(B
(BHow did you manage to track down the offending cookie, my emacs seems
(Bto give me no help in tracking such things down.
(B
(B Alex> Now the question is whether any data got corrupted. I
(B Alex> searched for ',A|(B' and found the following interesting
(B Alex> entries:
(B
(B Alex> ["David" "Kċgedal" ("David Kagedal") ... ["Markus" "Kühl"
(B Alex> nil ... ["Jochen" "Küpper" ("usenet") ... ["Jochen"
(B Alex> "Küpper" ("Jochen Kuepper") ... ["Frank" "Küster" ("Frank
(B Alex> K\374ster") ...
(B
(B Alex> What does that tell us?
(B
(B Alex> 1. Your bbdb file is in a sad state. :)
(B
(BI guess I knew that ;-)
(B
(B Alex> 2. David, Markus and Jochen have correct entries. Yay!
(B
(B Alex> 3. Some people like Frank got both names wrong: The first is
(B Alex> double-encoded (looks like UTF-8 bytes displayed on a
(B Alex> Latin-1 terminal), whereas the second looks like raw Latin-1
(B Alex> (ie. invalid UTF-8) -- and when I double-check, octal 0374
(B Alex> is in fact on a Latin-1 system!
(B
(B Alex> Records like Frank's will be corrupt one way or another.
(B Alex> You either need to fix these by manually as you come upon
(B Alex> them, or live with it. :) Perhaps you need these names and
(B Alex> aliases to compensate for mailers that lack transcoding...
(B Alex> Maybe these are old entries generated by Gnus or something
(B Alex> and need fixing anyway.
(B
(B Alex> I did not see any Japanese/Chinese characters, so we don't
(B Alex> know how good it went. :)
(B
(BWill look out for these.
(B
(B Alex> Anyway, let me know how it works. If it works, please let
(B Alex> us know on the mailing list. Maybe copy the above
(B Alex> explanation as well to remind me to post this on the wiki.
(B
(BHave done
(B
(BThanks again
(B
(BGraham
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