On Mon, Nov 26 2007, Robert Widhopf-Fenk wrote:

> On Monday, November 26, 2007 at 22:33:40, Reiner Steib wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be better to encode the strings in UTF-8 and compare
>> thereafter?  (encode-coding-string name 'utf-8)?
>
> Thanks this was exactly the hint I was looking for ;-)

Disclaimer: 100% untested.

>> > +(defun bbdb-name-normalize (n)
>> > +  "Normalizes a name, i.e. downcase and unibyte converion."
>> > +  (when n 
>> > +    (setq n (downcase n))
>> > +    (if (functionp 'string-make-unibyte)
>> > +  (funcall 'string-make-unibyte n)
>> > +      n)))
>> 
>> Using `name' instead of `name' would be more readable, IMHO.
>
> You mean in the doc string?

Sorry, I meant...  "Using `name' instead of `n'".

Bye, Reiner.
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