From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: D. Goel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: prompt: "Select one of these safe coding systems" Date: 24 Nov 2002 16:33:44 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87isymd553.fsf@computer.localdomain> References: <87smxqzsfw.fsf@computer.localdomain> <87lm3i3ezb.fsf@labatt.uhoreg.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038173694 14355 80.91.224.249 (24 Nov 2002 21:34:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:34:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18G4Oz-0003jP-00 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:34:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18G4Qo-0003NF-00; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:36:46 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!sn-xit-05!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: #5@=vrmx5t3mZaPY8(mR.n+V#:%4NW7j5A&^}@lGp2rK;CQ4%iH1v'gh/^A)w5*6c&R2(P' 4+seYDq8OK'LPI/C(C^A*w|f*t+8,'T8b#_0~h3!A7GoVroE[cr0Fb'A0%SdU|Lk@gBV&1vA User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 19 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107387 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3938 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3938 Hubert Chan writes: > > It seems BBDB uses its own variable: > > (setq bbdb-file-coding-system 'utf-8) That did solve my problem. Thanks a lot Hubart. (Answers to the general problem of getting emacs to not prompt for "safe" coding system are still welcome :-) DG http://deego.gnufans.org/~deego/ --