From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45120 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John S Cooper Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: bbdb acting up with Kai's name Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 16:09:55 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <871yblep8c.fsf@eu.citrix.com> References: <87d6vc402m.fsf@alum.wpi.edu> <87660xc06h.fsf@eu.citrix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023290150 860 127.0.0.1 (5 Jun 2002 15:15:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:15:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17FcVp-0000Dl-00 for ; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 17:15:50 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17FcUW-0007Af-00; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:14:28 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:14:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA05262 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 10:14:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 9018 invoked by alias); 5 Jun 2002 15:14:12 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9013 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2002 15:14:11 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO hqvwall02.citrix.com) (12.8.192.29) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Jun 2002 15:14:11 -0000 Original-Received: from 10.9.1.111 by hqvwall02.citrix.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Wed, 05 Jun 2002 11:14:11 -0400 Original-Received: by hqexchcon01.citrix.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:14:15 -0400 Original-Received: from kontiki.cam.citrix.com (kontiki.cam.eu.citrix.com [10.70.128.78]) by hwexch01.ctxuk.citrix.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id J7DF53N7; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:14:04 +0100 Original-To: Kai Grossjohann In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Wed, 05 Jun 2002 16:30:14 +0200") Original-Lines: 45 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45120 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45120 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai writes: > John S Cooper writes: >=20 > > BBDB prompts me to change "Kai Gro=DFjohann" to "Kai Grojohann" = where is > > an outline box character (to denote a char not available?). > > > > I've attached a couple of screenshots that show how the character = is encoded > > and that char value 0xf5f is what ends up getting displayed. > > > > If anyone can tell me how to avoid this it would be much = appreciated. >=20 > This is Latin-9-=DF. (You could have done C-u C-x =3D instead of = C-x =3D to > see this, I think.) >=20 > Isn't it enough to just install a Latin-9 font? (Of course, that = will help > with the box only.) I suppose so - if I use the following font, the character is displayed correctly: -b&h-lucida console-medium-r-semi = condensed--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso8859-15 However, there doesn't seem to be an iso-8859-15 variant of the font I = like for my Gnus frame, namely: -etl-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-160-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 > You could also store .bbdb in an encoding which differentiates = between > Latin-1 and Latin-9 (emacs-mule and the iso-2022 encodings come to > mind) and then store two versions of my name. Newer bbdb versions > have a variable bbdb-file-coding-system. You must make sure that = the > file on disk agrees with this coding system, though: >=20 > C-x C-f ~/.bbdb RET > C-x RET f foo RET > C-x C-s >=20 > Then set bbdb-file-coding-system to foo. Hmm, my bbdb doesn't have this variable - I'm using 2.34 which bbdb.sourceforge.org claims to be the latest released version. Perhaps it's easiest for me to just put up with the outline character = and figure out how to tell BBDB to just quietly accept duplicate names. --- John