.bbdb become binary??

.bbdb become binary??

[Shao Zhang]

Hi,

I upgraded to emacs 21.3 today, recompiled bbdb and gnus along with it.
But all of sudden, I found my .bbdb became a binary file.

Has anybody else had similar problem?

Shao.

Re: .bbdb become binary??

[Kai Großjohann]

Shao Zhang <shaoz@activesky.com> writes:

> I upgraded to emacs 21.3 today, recompiled bbdb and gnus along with it.
> But all of sudden, I found my .bbdb became a binary file.

Whee.  Maybe you could C-x C-f the file and see what's wrong in
there.  Maybe you can guess the encoding of the file?

BBDB 2.35 has a variable bbdb-file-coding-system which needs to have
the right value, matching the encoding of the file.
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Re: .bbdb become binary (mule related?)

[Shao Zhang]

On [Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:01:08 +0200], kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
>> I upgraded to emacs 21.3 today, recompiled bbdb and gnus along with it.
>> But all of sudden, I found my .bbdb became a binary file.
>
> Whee.  Maybe you could C-x C-f the file and see what's wrong in
> there.  Maybe you can guess the encoding of the file?

Here it is:
/tmp/oldbbdb: Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode character data

Maybe some of the name entries contain the international characters made
this happen? I also notice this has happened a long time ago, coz my cvs
controlled .bbdb is in binary in the recent versions.

But now I cannot start gnus with this binary .bbdb, bbdb complains
the file-version is not found, and is used by gnus's spam-split.

Could it be a problem of mule-ucs? My mule package failed to compile
since I upgraded to emacs21.3. The error is:

UCS-0.84/lisp/un-define.el:
  ** reference to free variable progn
  ** The following functions are not known to be defined: find-charset,
    w32-regist-font-encoder
Wrote /usr/ports/converters/mule-ucs/work/Mule-UCS-0.84/lisp/un-define.elc
While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/ports/converters/mule-ucs/work/Mule-UCS-0.84/lisp/un-supple.el:
  !! Symbol's value as variable is void ((progn))


 
> BBDB 2.35 has a variable bbdb-file-coding-system which needs to have
> the right value, matching the encoding of the file.

I am only using 2.34 which is from the most recent FreeBSD port :(

Regards,

Shao.

Re: .bbdb become binary (mule related?)

[Kai Großjohann]

Shao Zhang <shao@cia.com.au> writes:

> On [Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:01:08 +0200], kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
>  
>> BBDB 2.35 has a variable bbdb-file-coding-system which needs to have
>> the right value, matching the encoding of the file.
>
> I am only using 2.34 which is from the most recent FreeBSD port :(

Maybe it has that variable, too?

You might also try to invoke the GNU recode program to convert the
file from UTF-16 little endian to something you normally use
(GB2312? Big5?).
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Re: .bbdb become binary??

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Apr 09 2003, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> BBDB 2.35 has a variable bbdb-file-coding-system which needs to have
> the right value, matching the encoding of the file.

If I understood the mails on the bbdb-list correctly, users shouldn't
change `bbdb-file-coding-system'.

See:
<news:rzqvfxnocc3.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk>
<news:16020.22698.831678.131687@down.dev.ie.alphyra.com>
<URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bbdb.user/1045>
<URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bbdb.user/1046>

Bye, Reiner.
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