Re: How to get rid of Unicode?

[Kai Großjohann]

A. L. Meyers <nospam.look@replyto.because.this.is.invalid> writes:

> Now I have to manually set the mule screen encoding to latin-1 in order
> to see that great esstset in Grossjohann, then tell bbdb to accept A\237
> as well and so on.  More work, less productivity.  Me likes simple and
> stupid.  Even have doubts whether latin-9 will really work smoothly
> without hiccups.  My query is how e. g. to re-setup emacs to just work
> with say latin-9 languages with a maximum of user laziness. :-)

BBDB uses the bbdb-file-coding-system.  I think it's not a good idea.
Dave Love has proposed patches to change this, but maybe they haven't
been accepted yet.  Or maybe they have.  I'm not sure.

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