Re: bbdb, Umlauts, pgnus-0.79 and emacs-20.2

[Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com>]

Johannes Weinert writes:
> Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com> writes:

>> If you do have the problem, insert the following text in the *scratch*
>> buffer, and type C-j (control j) after it.  Send back the results.
>> 
>> (mail-extract-address-components "Max Schäfer <max@plank.org>")

> Well, funny. I put this text via cut-and-paste in the scratch buffer
> and evaluated the expression as desired. The result was:
>     ("Max Sch" "max@plank.org")

This means that the problem is with `mail-extract-address-components'
(as you can see).  Since the base emacs functionality doesn't work,
there nothing that I can do, other than try to hack around it, which
is not something that I want to do.

You may want to try getting the 20.3 version of mail-extr, and see if
that fixes the problem.

> But, if I startet another emacs (language-environment was not already
> set to "Latin-1", I execute the function in gnus-startup-hook), and
> pasted the text from scratch-buffer to it, a \201 showed up before the
> "ä". If I delete this, then mail-extract-address-components returns
>     ("Max Schäfer" "max@plank.org")
> als desired. Otherwise it's the same as above.

I think that emacs-20.2 is screwing with your characters.  This
paragraph has been garbled by putting in all those \201 characters.

> Well, I think, I should convince the system administrator to install
> emacs-20.3 (or the bad way: do it for myself - as suggested before).

That seems to be the only fix.  I hope that they will do it.

-- 
Colin