From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/483 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: remi.letot@easynet.be (=?iso-8859-15?q?R=E9mi?= Letot) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: bbdb and searching Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:04:23 +0200 Organization: [ posted via Easynet Belgium ] Message-ID: <87off9hflk.fsf@easynet.be> References: <87wutztdus.fsf@easynet.be> <87n0uvt636.fsf@easynet.be> <871yc6e62y.fsf@easynet.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667469 7152 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:31:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:39 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!stargate.gts.cz!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.euro.net!zonnet-feed!trev!skynet.be!skynet.be!feed1.news.be.easynet.net!sisyphus.news.be.easynet.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Hh31b1X6TqRhkG5nWar/ZXnC+ws= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.100.182.210 Original-X-Trace: 1021982663 3769 212.100.182.210 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@be.easynet.net Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:623 Original-Lines: 55 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 623 Tue Jan 17 17:27:39 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:483 Archived-At: 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