Alex Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Xavier Maillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> So what is the *best* or the *recommended* coding system to use for >>> BBDB knowing that my contacts are world wide. >> >> The one that's set in recent versions (as far as I know), >> i.e. `iso-2022-7bit', at least if you want to be at all portable >> between Emacs and XEmacs as some people apparently do. The _correct_ >> one in Emacs 21 is really `emacs-mule', as etc/MORE.STUFF says, but >> `iso-2022-7bit' happens to DTRT with eight-bit characters. > > Do you think the following code and comment in bbdb.el is correct?
Yes, as in the explanation above. Why do not think so? > ;; iso-2022-7bit should be OK (but not optimal for Emacs, at least -- > ;; emacs-mule would be better) with both Emacs 21 and XEmacs. Emacs > ;; 22 will really need utf-8-emacs. > (defconst bbdb-file-coding-system (if (fboundp 'coding-system-p) > (if (coding-system-p 'utf-8-emacs) > 'utf-8-emacs > 'iso-2022-7bit)) > "Coding system used for reading and writing `bbdb-file'. > This should not be changed by users.") > > > Maybe this explains why I'm getting utf-8-emacs... I'm using the > unicode branch from CVS Emacs: GNU Emacs 22.0.0.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, > X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2004-02-11 on confusibombus That's brave. When I left it, it wasn't in a state that I'd trust mail to it... It specifically doesn't DTRT with Babyl. > I'd just like to see both code and comment fixed such that I can > understand it a few months from now. Can you suggest a change? Sorry, you'll have to explain why either needs fixing. (I can still understand them, for what it's worth.) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
