Thanks for your repsonse Alex, the problem appears to have been
resolved, at least for the time being.
> "Alex" == Alex Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alex> Selected encoding mule-utf-8-unix disagrees with
Alex> iso-2022-7bit-unix specified by file content
Thanks for the suggestions. I think I've fixed the problem. Found an
old copy of .bbdb which didn't have the problem and a 10 minute
session with the wonderful ediff did the trick.
Thanks again
Graham
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Graham Gough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tried this, it saved, then the next time the file needed saving I and
> got the message
>
> These default coding systems were tried:
> iso-2022-7bit-unix iso-latin-1
> However, none of them safely encodes the target text.
>
> Is there
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Graham Gough wrote:
>
> Is there any way to identify the characters that are ausing the
> problem?
>
Recent version of emacs - cvs only I think - highlight the characters that
are giving the problems so I'd copy the .bbdb buffer into another file and
try saving it rather tha
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:00:38 +0200, Alex Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
as> It just works. ;)
If only that were true!
as> bbdb-file-coding-system's value is iso-2022-7bit
So's mine
as> My .bbdb file starts with:
as> ;; -*-coding: iso-2022-7bit;-*-
So does mine
as> I recommend to
Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Nope. Looking at coding systems in emacs gives me hives. If anyone
> else has something useful to contribute (patches, in particular)
> please speak up now.
It just works. ;)
bbdb-file-coding-system's value is iso-2022-7bit
My .bbdb file starts with:
On August 31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> That might be the case, but do you have an answer to my original
> question, please?
Nope. Looking at coding systems in emacs gives me hives. If anyone
else has something useful to contribute (patches, in particular)
please speak up now.
Cheers,
Waider.
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:06:45 +0100, Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
rw> On August 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>> > and, er, what FAQ?
>> http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/faq.html
>>
rw> Hah, I'd totally forgotten about that. I should remove it and point
rw> the link at the EmacsWiki inste
On August 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > and, er, what FAQ?
> http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/faq.html
>
> It has your (waider) name on it, but I guess it's now a bit out of
> date.
Hah, I'd totally forgotten about that. I should remove it and point
the link at the EmacsWiki instead...
Waider.
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what BBDB version (hint: bbdb-submit-bug-report)
2.35 and see below
and, er, what FAQ?
http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/faq.html
It has your (waider) name on it, but I guess it's now a bit out of date.
Graham
Emacs : GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d
scroll bars)
of 2003-02-20
what BBDB version (hint: bbdb-submit-bug-report) and, er, what FAQ?
cheers,
Waider.
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I've recently switched back to Gnu Emacs 21.2.1 from xemacs. Since the
switch, every time I want to save .bbdb, I get a message asking what
coding system to use. After looking in the FAQ I added the code there
and now have a value of file-coding-sytem-alist which includes
("/\\.bbdb\\'" emacs-mul
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