On Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 13:17:38, William Xu wrote:
> Hi, people ! 
> 
> Why this awkward constraint for bbdb-file-coding-system? I can't
> read its docs.  

You refer to that it does not occur in the info file?

> It says "should not changed by users", 

You can mess up your ~/.bbdb when changing it while not
visiting the file.  This is what the warning refers to.

> but since
> it's a defcustom, describe-variable will tell you "You can customize
> this variable."  Basically, what I want to do is change the coding
> system to utf-8, so that the file could be saved correctly.

Well do it, but make a backup of ~/.bbdb first.

Bye Robert

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