package bbdb
tags 351778 +patch
thanks
Hi again, ;)
I found the main reason for the data corruption that François experienced.
Even though BBDB rewrites the coding cookie as iso-2022-7bit, Emacs 21 will
still try to save the .bbdb file using the old coding system, which results in
garbage when the file is read again, as it reads the old coding system codes,
thinking that it's reading the new coding system. I've sent the attached patch
to upstream, which ensures that Emacs will write the file using the correct
coding system, and upstream has more or less accepted it. (It should show up
in CVS soon.)
Given that, as I mentioned in my previous message, forcing the coding system is
a bugfix that upstream implemented, and this attached patch fixes the data
corruption, I think that this bug can be considered fixed.
<bbdb.patch>
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--- bbdb-2.35.cvs20060204.orig/lisp/bbdb.el
+++ bbdb-2.35.cvs20060204/lisp/bbdb.el
@@ -2452,7 +2452,8 @@
(insert-before-markers (format ";; -*-coding: %s;-*-\n"
bbdb-file-coding-system)))
(setq bbdb-modified-p nil
- bbdb-changed-records nil)
+ bbdb-changed-records nil
+ buffer-file-coding-system bbdb-file-coding-system)
(let ((buf (get-buffer bbdb-buffer-name)))
(when buf
(with-current-buffer buf
