On Sun, Nov 25 2007, Robert Widhopf-Fenk wrote:
attached is a patch which fixes it for me in GNU Emacs 22,
but it is not perfect as it possibly fails for names which
cannot be converted to unibyte ...
Wouldn't it be better to encode the strings in UTF-8 and compare
thereafter?
On Fri, Nov 23 2007, Tassilo Horn wrote:
From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?J=FCrgen_Ebert?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Ebert?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
`unify-8859-on-decoding-mode' might solve this problem.
Bye, Reiner.
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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:
Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Robert,
+(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)))
Hi Tassilo,
attached is a patch which fixes it for me in GNU Emacs 22,
but it is not perfect as it possibly fails for names which
cannot be converted to unibyte ...
Anyway, please test it.
Bye Robert
=== modified file 'lisp/bbdb.el'
--- lisp/bbdb.el2007-11-08 20:36:49 +
+++
Tassilo == Tassilo Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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?
Although I do not suffer your problem, I do receive email from the
same author
Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Robert,
Please mail the From header of two of these messages. It is much
easier to debug this by example?
From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?J=FCrgen_Ebert?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Ebert?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The strange thing is
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
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
