Re: bbdb acting up with Kai's name

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

John Cooper <john.cooper@eu.citrix.com> writes:

> 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

Indeed.  I wonder if the GNU intlfonts package will be augmented?

>  > 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:
>  > 
>  > C-x C-f ~/.bbdb RET
>  > C-x RET f foo RET
>  > C-x C-s
>  > 
>  > 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.

Oh.  Why do I have 2.35, then?  Hm.

> 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.

If you store that one variation of my name, then you will be fine.
(Until I move to Poland :-)

kai
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