[kronolith] Problem with charset using iCalendar

[Michael Anders]

Hi,

I did some testing, looking at the generated .ics etc.
Using charset utf-8 within horde does not code any umlaut and prints them as
ä, ü, ö etc.
This works fine with Sunbird (in both ways), while creating the error
(below) in Thunderbird with Lightning.
Changing the horde charset ($conf[sql][database] ) to iso-8859-1 makes the
umlauts in the ics-file look like ä (changing/creating new with umlauts
doesn’t work, because the tables/attributes are still 'utf8_general_ci').
Point is, its now displayed correctly without any error as an correct umlaut
in Thunderbird, while Sunbird itself as well as horde is displaying it now
wrong as ä.
This is a Thunderbird/Lightning bug isn’t it? I cant really find a solution,
kinda su**s.

Thanks
Michael

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: kronolith-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:kronolith-
> bounces at lists.horde.org] Im Auftrag von Jan Schneider
> Gesendet: Montag, 25. Mai 2009 11:57
> An: kronolith at lists.horde.org
> Betreff: Re: [kronolith] Problem with charset using iCalendar
> 
> No idea then. Check what's actually going over the wire and see if you
> could spot the data that is not utf-8 encoded.
> 
> Zitat von Michael Anders <development at visart.de>:
> 
> > Hi Jan,
> >
> > good point.
> > But this is only because I use MS Outlook for this mails.
> > My sunbird problem however is in both ways. Independent if I create a
> > task with Thunderbird/Sunbird or Horde with any kind of German
> umlaut,
> > it simply stop "syncronising" with the error below (and it's the same
> > for the whole team, so it's not because of my PC configuration).
> > It works btw with the invalid apostrophes, which are simply replaced
> > with a Questionmark ? by Thunderbird.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >> Von: Jan Schneider [mailto:jan at horde.org]
> >> Gesendet: Montag, 25. Mai 2009 11:29
> >> An: Michael Anders
> >> Betreff: Re: [kronolith] Problem with charset using iCalendar
> >>
> >> Well, given that your email messages constantly contain invalid
> >> ISO-8859-1 characters (as apostrophes), there are chances that you
> >> have them in your event titles or descriptions too.
> >>
> >> Zitat von Michael Anders <development at visart.de>:
> >>
> >> > Hi guys,
> >> >
> >> > sorry to bother you again.
> >> > I unfortunately couldn’t find a solution yet. It might be because
> >> > of some php configurations or similar, because some others told me
> >> > they haven’t got a problem with special characters between horde
> >> > and
> >> sunbird.
> >> > Does anybody has any idea which I could try?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> > Michael
> >> >
> >> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >> >> Von: kronolith-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:kronolith-
> >> >> bounces at lists.horde.org] Im Auftrag von Michael Anders
> >> >> Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. Mai 2009 13:40
> >> >> An: kronolith at lists.horde.org
> >> >> Betreff: [kronolith] Problem with charset using iCalendar
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi everybody,
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> after I couldn’t find a solution in the archive or other pages I
> >> like
> >> >> to try it here.
> >> >>
> >> >> I’m trying to connect my Thunderbird/Lightning to the calendar
> and
> >> >> task list at my Horde Groupware Webmail Edition (1.2.3) which
> >> >> works fine until someone is using German characters in a task,
> >> >> then I got the thunderbird error CAL_UTF8_DECODING_FAILED
> >> >> (Description: An
> >> error
> >> >> occured while decoding an iCalendar (ics) file as UTF-8. Check
> >> >> that the file, including symbols and accented letters, is encoded
> >> >> using the UTF-8 character encoding.).
> >> >>
> >> >> I can´t find the problem, all my configurations are based on
> >> >> utf-8, including the whole mysql database. All special chars are
> >> >> displayed correctly on the GUI. And I can actually create a task
> >> >> in
> >> Thunderbird
> >> >> with special chars, which is correctly saved in Horde, don’t work
> >> the
> >> >> way back though.
> >> >>
> >> >> Does anybody have a good idea for a quick solution?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks for your help
> >> >>
> >> >> Mike
> >> >>
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> >>
> >> Jan.
> >>
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> 
> 
> 
> Jan.
> 
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