Re: bbdb and searching

[remi.letot@easynet.be (Rémi Letot)]

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

> remi.letot@easynet.be (Rémi Letot) writes:
>
>> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>>
>>> In Emacs from CVS, you can turn on unify-8859-on-decoding-mode and
>>> this will help somewhat because it reduces the number of times that ä
>>> from different charsets appears in your file.  
>>
>> Herm, unify-8859-on-decoding-mode and unify-8859-on-encoding-mode are
>> both on on my machine. And yet I still have different charsets in my
>> bbdb it seems.
>
> Hm.
>
>> Is there some way to convert everything in it to Latin-9 ?
>
> C-x C-f ~/.bbdb RET C-x RET f latin-9 RET C-x C-s

Didn't do the trick. Tried with latin-1 and latin-9, but Rémi doesn't
match my entry. I can't event find it with C-s in ~/.bbdb

Another idea ? :-)

With M-x bbdb I can search it with 'R.mi', but that's not very user
friendly :-)

>
>>> Work is currently in progress to change the internal encoding of
>>> Emacs from Mule to something based on Unicode (ie, Unicode with some
>>> extensions).  When this happens, all ä characters will be the same
>>> inside of Emacs.  Then the searching problem will be gone.  (It also
>>> means that Pavel's name will be affected, one way or another.)
>>
>> When will that be in a usable state ?
>
> Who knows?  I'm sure even the people doing the work don't know.  Such
> is (often) the nature of free software: people do the work when they
> have time.

Yep, I know that and in no way would criticize those people. I
actually would like to contribute something useful, but haven't found
it yet :-)

> But I can say that 21.3 is planned as a bugfix release.  Then people
>are working on 21.4.  And Emacs 22 will surely come after that.  So
>don't hold your breath.

That's the answer I wanted : imminent or not. Thanks, now I know I
have to find a way around that problem. *That* could be usefull :
write a howto for non us-ascii people when the problem is solved.

-- 
Rémi Letot