.bbdb getting corrupted by coding system in MULE

Aidan Kehoe kehoea at parhasard.net
Wed Sep 5 07:26:21 EDT 2007


 Ar an cúigiú lá de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Michael Sperber: 

 > My .bbdb sporadically gets saved in "ISO7", when it's supposed to be
 > "Noconv".
 > 
 > I literally see this happen in front of my eyes:
 > 
 > I edit the .bbdb buffer.  It says "Noconv" in the modeline, then I press
 > C-x C-s, and it switches to "ISO7".  Ideas, anyone?  This is very
 > annoying.

What value do you have for bbdb-file-coding-system ? If your data sticks to
Latin 1, and you want to share it with a non-Mule XEmacs, changing it to
iso-2022-8 might do what you want.

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