Re: bogus encoding for .bbdb

2005-08-12 Thread Jochen Küpper
Evil Boris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ;; iso-2022-7bit should be OK (but not optimal for Emacs, at least -- ;; emacs-mule would be better) with both Emacs 21 and XEmacs. Emacs ;; 22 will really need utf-8-emacs. Please change the comment, at least :) --- the current CVS Emacs is going to be

Re: bogus encoding for .bbdb

2005-08-12 Thread Dave Love
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is the current code: ;; iso-2022-7bit should be OK (but not optimal for Emacs, at least -- ;; emacs-mule would be better) with both Emacs 21 and XEmacs. Emacs ;; 22 will really need utf-8-emacs. (defconst bbdb-file-coding-system (if (fboundp

bogus encoding for .bbdb

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Love
The current CVS version of bbdb.el has bogusly changed the coding system for .bbdb in Emacs 21 to mule-utf-8. That's not, and never will be, a universal coding system: (memq 'mule-utf-8 (find-coding-systems-string (string (make-char 'chinese-gb2312 68 99)

Re: bogus encoding for .bbdb

2005-08-11 Thread Ronan Waide
On August 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The current CVS version of bbdb.el has bogusly changed the coding system for .bbdb in Emacs 21 to mule-utf-8. That's not, and never will be, a universal coding system: (memq 'mule-utf-8 (find-coding-systems-string (string (make-char

Re: bogus encoding for .bbdb

2005-08-11 Thread Evil Boris
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On August 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The current CVS version of bbdb.el has bogusly changed the coding system for .bbdb in Emacs 21 to mule-utf-8. That's not, and never will be, a universal coding system: (memq 'mule-utf-8

Re: bogus encoding for .bbdb

2005-08-11 Thread Ronan Waide
On August 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Please change the comment, at least :) --- the current CVS Emacs is I'm pretty sure Dave actually contributed the comment, and I think this amply demonstrates my point about support for CVS Emacs. If this code is actively breaking Emacs 22 then by all means

Re: bogus encoding for .bbdb

2005-08-11 Thread Ronan Waide
On August 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: For what reason? They were wrong anyway, as I said: I'd have to go digging in the archives to find out. Since you say it's broken, though, I'll happily remove it. Yes. The check which would prevent that on saving the file (if I remember correctly)

Re: bogus encoding for .bbdb

2005-08-11 Thread Evil Boris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David S. Goldberg) writes: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:54:41 +0100, Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Note that the .bbdb file is a normal emacs file in that it doesn't autosave or anything, so you can always revert to the on-disk version if you screw things up. Right.

Re: bogus encoding for .bbdb

2005-08-11 Thread Ronan Waide
On August 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I wonder if it would be completely silly to consider putting the BBDB database through pretty-printer before saving it to .bbdb? This makes reading it by humans a lot easier and I doubt it would increase its size all THAT much. Please PLEASE consult

Re: bogus encoding for .bbdb

2005-08-11 Thread Ronan Waide
On August 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The mule-utf-8 stuff was contributed by someone using Emacs 22 For what reason? They were wrong anyway, as I said: I've taken it out of current CVS. cheers, Waider. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Yes, it /is/ very personal of me. quit with the wouldn't and