Re: iso-8859-1 and non-latin-1 chars

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Dave Love <address@hidden> writes:

> Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
>>  > No, it should use a general coding system to store all
>>  > text.
>>  
>>  If that is possible (i.e. users allows that), yes.

> They should not change it, but...  (BBDB originally had no encoding
> support, and some people took part of my advice to add .bbdb to
> `file-coding-system-alist', but chose to ignore the actual coding
> system :-(.)

>>  But, why calling select-safe-coding-system is not good?

> It's not relevant.  You need to be able to store all text in the file,
> not just Latin-1 names, for instance.  It's the same issue as for
> auto-save files &c.

In that case, anyway using latin-1 is not appropriate.
Instead of enabling latin-1 to save all characters, bbdb
should be modified to use a better coding system.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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