Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com> writes:

> Johannes Weinert writes:
> 
> > I read an article of someone who had "Umlauts" in his real name. Lets
> > say the name is "Max Sch�äfer". Then bbdb only recognizes the name "Max
> > Sch".
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have a version of 20.2 to test with here.
> However, there are two things that you can do to try to help me debug
> this:
> 
> First, please tell me where the mail-extr library is.  If there is one
> in your bbdb lisp directory, then you should remove it, restart Emacs,
> and see if you still have the problem.

The library mail-extr is the one shipped with emacs-20.2.

> 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")
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.

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).
> 
> Thanks.

Thank _you_ for your efforts.

-- 
Hans