feature request and patch: international names

I often get mail messages with rfc2047 encoded from fields. With the auto-retrieving functionality of BBDB and with Gnus, BBDB stores these names decoded with accented characters or german umlauts. After auto-retrieval I usually change manually the special characters in BBDB (I do not want to send

Re: real name handling

On 12 Jan 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On January 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> How can I make BBDB recognize "compound" real names like >> >> Jane von Arx >> Peter de Vries >> >> and split them into firstnames "Jane" and "Peter" and lastnames >> "von Arx" and "de Vries"? >> >> Is there any

real name handling

How can I make BBDB recognize "compound" real names like Jane von Arx Peter de Vries and split them into firstnames "Jane" and "Peter" and lastnames "von Arx" and "de Vries"? Is there any functionality already implemented in current version of BBDB? If not, I propose the following patch for fi

real name handling [2]

In addition to my previous post about real name handling, I propose the following change to the constant (or better user changeable/customizable variable?) bbdb-name-gubbish[1] (defconst bbdb-name-gubbish (concat "[-,. \t/\\]+\\(" "[JjSs]r\\.?" "\\|V?\\(I\\.?\\)+V?"