>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Owen Rafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    > From: Rui - Tao  Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

    >     Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~}                   Department of Mathematics

        
        I hope it is OK this time. 

>>>>> On Tue, 1 Mar 1994 18:25:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Wells) said:

 jbw> mail-extract-address-components does correctly recognize "~{6-HpLN~}"
 jbw> as a single name word.  (It's one or more Chinese characters.)

        That's correct, "6-HpLN" is the HZ (hanzi) coding (the de facto
standard for the chinese Internet community) for three chinese characters
(2 bytes for each one). I am using some hacks to display these in Epoch
(and it shouldn't be hard to do for Lucid and FSF emacs.)

>>>>> On Wed, 2 Mar 94 15:24:37 CST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Olstad) said:

 ken> Regarding the merge problem, it would be fairly easy to use EDB to
 ken> merge two BBDBs.  It'd be like using a glorified emerge.  I don't
 ken> know whether EDB could be used to save us from BBDB's mysterious
 ken> black magic that Jamie keeps warning us about ("Mr.  Grenade is no
 ken> longer your friend", "You are dancing blindfolded on a precipice").
 ken> If it's a matter of sorting the new BBDB in some fancy way, EDB can
 ken> be easily trained to do that.

        To be absolutely safe, how about convert two (or more) BBDBs to EDB
and merge them, then tell EDB to call bbdb-create-internal on every record?

 ken> I'm very big on EDB, but don't see how it could help with the
 ken> mulitiple database problem.  Could you explain?  Maybe I just don't
 ken> understand the multiple database problem.

        I was just refering to EDB's abilities of merging databases and
writing records from one to another, although I think it should be possible
to read in two (or more) databases of the same type to create a "virtual"
one. 

Regards,

    Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~}                 Department of Mathematics
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]              Johns Hopkins University
    (410)516-7406(O) (410)516-5549(Fax)     Baltimore, Maryland 21218
                                
                                



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