Re: bbdb and searching

[remi.letot@easynet.be (Rémi Letot)]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai writes:

> remi.letot@easynet.be (Rémi Letot) writes:
>
>> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai writes:
>>
>>> remi.letot@easynet.be (Rémi Letot) writes:
>>>
>>>> Still no match :-(
>>>
>>> Then it's probably the new BBDB version.  Sorry for wasting your time.
>>
>> You didn't waste my time. Is the new bbdb version usable without
>> problems ? If you don't experience the problem I describe, I might
>> consider switching.
>
> Well, I encountered some problems related to bbdb-file-coding-system,
> but other than that, 2.35 seems worthwhile.
>
> I'm not exactly sure what were the "problems" I alluded to above.
> Might as well have been a mistake on my part.  I noticed something
> strange.  Maybe the strangeness was that BBDB asked me again and
> again to change Kai Großjohann to Kai Großjohann (from Latin-1 to
> Latin-9, I guess), even after I had accepted the change and saved
> BBDB.  Then I started to mess with the encoding myself, and of course
> now I'm responsible for any damage this might have caused.

That seems to be related to what I experience : my .bbdb file is
encoded in Latin-1 whatever I do, which prevents me from searching it
with Latin-9 characters.

You problem seems to be the same kind : your name always reverted to
Latin-1. 

Have you found a way around that ?

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Rémi Letot