Re: prompt: "Select one of these safe coding systems"

[Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>]

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>>>>> "D" == D Goel <deego@gnufans.org> writes:

D> hi Here, emacs (21.2) always prompts for a "safe" coding system (when
D> trying to save the bdbb file)--->

D> ,----
D> | 
D> | These default coding systems were tried: | iso-2022-7bit-unix
D> iso-latin-1 | However, none of them safely encodes the target text.
D> | 
D> | Select one of the following safe coding systems: | utf-8 raw-text
D> emacs-mule no-conversion.  `----

D> So, I tried to set-language-environment (used to be english) to
D> Latin-1, but emacs continued to prompt the first option being utf-8.

D> So, I tried to setq default-buffer-file-coding-system to 'utf-8, but
D> emacs still continued to show the same prompt.

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It seems BBDB uses its own variable:

(setq bbdb-file-coding-system 'utf-8)

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