Re: latin encodings, mail-lib, and posix regexp classes

Josh> Simon Josefsson <jas(a)extundo.com&gt; writes: Josh> Ah, you're probably right. Now I'm not sure what's supposed Josh> to be happening, since BBDB gets passed the header after Josh> it's been decoded, but it uses Josh> mail-extract-address-components (mail-extr.el) or Josh> rfc822-addresses (rfc822.el) [both part of mail-lib]. So, Josh> where's the bug? There's code in there already to handle Josh> latin-1 chars: No, there isn't. There's code in there to handle _8-bit_ characters. Try this: (let* ((latin1-ss (string (make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 95))) ;; don't use non-ASCII values in make-char, it's bad style ;; these values are indicies into ISO 2022 registers (latin2-ss (string (make-char 'latin-iso8859-2 95))) (latin1-addr (concat "Joe Te" latin1-ss "t <joe.test(a)foo.org&gt;&quot;)) (latin2-addr (concat "Joe Te" latin2-ss "t <joe.test(a)foo.org&gt;&quot;))) (concat "Works: <" (car (mail-extract-address-components latin1-addr)) ">, Broken: <" (car (mail-extract-address-components latin2-addr)) ">")) So it only works on Latin-1 by accident. I don't know what it would take to make this work on non-ISO-8859-1 characters. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py