.bbdb getting corrupted by coding system in MULE

[Michael Sperber]

Thanks for the prompt response!

Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> writes:

>  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 ? 

None so far. :-)  (Didn't even know it existed.)

Still, it seems strange that it would get switched spontaneously, and
sporadically, as far as I can tell.  (It never happened until maybe
three weeks agao.)

> 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.

Just to make sure I understand---why iso-2022-8 and not, say,
iso-8859-1?

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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