I hit gnus-group-save-newsrc and all the sudden I am being asked by gnus to pick a new character set for some file.
I find my formerly big5 .bbdb has now all been converted to utf-8, apparently due to a single mail I replied to From: David =?iso-8859-15?q?Mart=EDnez_Moreno?= Well at least I can be sure of what caused it: $ iconv -f utf8 -t big5 .bbdb|tail -1 iconv: illegal input sequence at position 29941 ["David Mart $ tac .bbdb|iconv -f utf8 -t big5 |tail -1 iconv: illegal input sequence at position 23409 ["David Mart Anyway, for the average user, it seems there is no backing out in this situation, other than resorting to backup files. Once you are asked the question by gnus, it is too late. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
