From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1250 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Jennrich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Is BBDB really that bad? Date: 01 Oct 2002 13:16:53 +0200 Organization: I'm just speaking for myself. Message-ID: References: <877kh3z317.fsf@virgil.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668019 10400 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:40:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:52 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!news.teledanmark.no!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!swin17247.estec.esa.NL!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: ojennric@swin17247.estec.esa.nl Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: swin17247.estec.esa.nl (131.176.17.247) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1033470967 13468461 131.176.17.247 (16 [371]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Informed Management (Windows [3])) Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1390 Original-Lines: 39 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1390 Tue Jan 17 17:28:52 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1250 Archived-At: * 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? -- Space - the final frontier