On Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 14:40:29, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I read several newsgroups from my university where people whose name
> contains umlauts and that are in my bbdb post with different
> newsreaders.  When I read such a posting bbdb asks me if I want to
> change the name like the example I have in my subject.
> 
> The problem is that one newsreader they use encodes the umlauts with
> latin-1 and the other encodes them with latin-15.  (At least that's
> what describe-char on the characters that are not `eql' in both
> strings says.)
> 
> Is there a way to stop bbdb asking those questions?  Maybe by
> converting the strings to some other encoding system like utf-8
> before the comparison?

Please mail the From header of two of these messages.  It is
much easier to debug this by example?

In Gnus please select the raw article buffer by "C-u g" and
extract the From headers there.  You may spoof the email
addresses or names if you want.

You are using a mime enabled Emacs, aren't you?

Robert

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