Handle non-ascii chars in bbdb

[skarra]

Handle non-ascii chars in bbdb

[skarra]

If I strip out all the funky text encoding and just retain the unicode strings (within quotes) as I see them in your description above, ASynK is able to parse the file properly using utf-8.

Are you using some old version of Emacs? I am not even sure how to get Emacs to dump such encoded strings. I would wager that if you "convert" your bbdb file in Emacs to a more "modern" utf-8 encoded file you should be able to use it with ASynK today.

But then, it is also desirable to get ASynK to be able to detect and deal with such cases. So patches are welcome.

[bergey]

I'm using emacs 23.4 and bbdb 2.36 (current Debian unstable). I'd much rather get bbdb to use UTF-8 than get ASynk to support the horrible old multiple-encodings format. So I'll look into that. Thanks for the quick repsonse!

[skarra]

Great; I'll close this issue now.