[kronolith] Problem with charset using iCalendar

[Michael Anders]

Sorry,

forgot to say that this is only a Nag Problem. Calendar works fine, no idea
why!

Michael

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: kronolith-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:kronolith-
> bounces at lists.horde.org] Im Auftrag von Michael Anders
> Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Juni 2009 10:32
> An: kronolith at lists.horde.org
> Betreff: Re: [kronolith] Problem with charset using iCalendar
> 
> 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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