.bbdb getting corrupted by coding system in MULE

[Michael Sperber]

Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> writes:

>  > 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.)
>
> You normally don’t use a Mule XEmacs, though, AIUI?

Yes I do---for a few years now.

>  > > 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?
>
> Because iso-8859-1 will entirely trash iso-8859-15 data, whereas iso-2022-8
> will only mostly trash it, such that a mule emacs can read it but
> essentially nothing else can. I should move the iso-8859-. coding systems to
> using the make-8-bit-coding-system infrastructure to make this less of a
> problem.

OK, thanks!

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