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From: Shao Zhang <shao@cia.com.au>
Subject: Re: .bbdb become binary (mule related?)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:47:53 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kfd6jv9l86.fsf_-_@shaoz.activesky.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 84r88b93dn.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-10  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-09  7:46 .bbdb become binary?? Shao Zhang
2003-04-09 14:01 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-10  1:47   ` Shao Zhang [this message]
2003-04-10 12:08     ` .bbdb become binary (mule related?) Kai Großjohann
2003-04-10 14:48   ` .bbdb become binary?? Reiner Steib

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