Q: Can I add addresses to the abook addressbook from mutt?
-A: Yes, it is possible starting from abook 0.4.15. See --add-email
+A: Yes, it is possible starting from abook version 0.4.15. See --add-email
command line option and README.
Q: Can I use abook in UTF-8 terminal emulator?
-A: Abook itself doesn't currently support UTF-8. You can use luit
- (http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/luit/) or screen as a converter.
- Luit comes also with recent versions of XFree86.
+A: Yes, the version 0.5.2 added a multibyte character support.
+
+ There are currently some issues:
+
+ - Addressbook files must have the same encoding as you use with abook.
+ If you have used abook previously with ISO-8859-1 encoding you can
+ convert the addressbook files with iconv(1). For example:
+
+ $ iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 < ~/.abook/addressbook.old > \
+ ~/.abook/addressbook.new
+
+ - Filters will output strings using multibyte representation of the used
+ locale. This is incorrect for (most of) filters. You can again use
+ iconv to convert between encodings. Same goes with input filters. If
+ you use UTF-8 charset the input is expected to be UTF-8 encoded.
+
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