Re: Multisync: patch and question

Gonzalo Diethelm wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 14:12 +0200, Armin Bauer wrote: 
>  
>
>>ah. now it makes sense :)
>>
>>so evolution2 gets a vcard that is iso-8859-1 encoded. from the manpage:
>>
>>E9           LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
>>
>>so i think the correct approach to this would be to fix in the other 
>>plugin since all vcards passing through multisync should be encoded in utf8.
>>
>>Another possibility would be to use g_utf8_validate in the evo2 plugin 
>>and if it returns false use g_convert from iso-8859-1 to utf8. But this 
>>would just be a ugly hack.
>>    
>>
>
>Ok, I think I got you. One other question: I tried fiddling around with
>the value for "Translate from character set" in "Bug Workarounds" in the
>IrMC plugin (the "other" plugin); I did this:
>
>1. Set it to a given value (tried with UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1).
>2. Erased the calendar.ics-msyncid2.db and all appointments in the
>phone's calendar.
>3. Synchronized once; it worked.
>4. Synchronized again; it didn't work.
>
>Do you think this setting could have any impact in my problem? If yes,
>is there any other value, other than UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1, that I should
>try here?
>  
>
no. if both of these do not work, none will work.

>Regards.
>
>
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>



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