Re: Is BBDB really that bad?

[Oliver Jennrich <oliver.jennrich@gmx.net>]

* Jarl Friis writes:

> spamtrap@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
>> On 30 Sep 2002 20:57:41 +0200, Jarl Friis wrote:
>> 
>> > By entering my own addres I figured out that many design-decisions
>> > was made under the assumption that we all live in USA. It makes it
>> > more or less useless to me, is that really so?
>> 
>> It isn't useless to me, although I mostly use it as a glorified
>> email-database.
>> 
>> Example:
>> 
>> David Pisinger - DIKU
>> Phone: 35 32 13 54
>> Work: Datalogisk Institut
>> Universitetsparken 1
>> DK-2100 Copenhagen
>> Denmark
>> net: pisinger@diku.dk
>> 
>> Doesn't look USA-centric to me.

> It does to me.

> In Denmark we don't (necessarily) separate phonenumbers, that is,
> 35321354 should be accepted as a phonumber as well.  It is custom to
> use native city names, that is "København" instead of "Copenhagen",
> because when the post arrives to the people who care about the city
> name, it is in the correct, and the people who sort on city names may
> not speak english. On a letter to a person in Munich, Germany you
> don't write "Munich, Germany", you write "München, Germany".

Very true. Does anyone know how to enable the 'iso-accents-mode' in
bbdb-create? 

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