[kronolith] Kronolith with iCal r/w or task support or ... or ...

Lukas Haase lukashaase at gmx.at
Wed Dec 23 14:54:16 UTC 2009


Jan Schneider schrieb:
> Zitat von Lukas Haase <lukashaase at gmx.at>
>> Hi again,
>> Jan Schneider schrieb:
>>> Zitat von Lukas Haase <lukashaase at gmx.at>:
>>>> [...]
>>>> However apart from this I found problems with UTF8: When I create 
>>>> entried for example with Japanese characters in Thunderbird the 
>>>> items are just called ????? in Kronolith.
>>>>
>>>> The other way round, when I create an appointment with UTF8 named in 
>>>> Kronolith they get somehow weird escaped. The wonderful Japanese 
>>>> christmas becomes: &#12463;&#12522;&#12473;&#12510;&#12473;
>>>>
>>>> Maybe it is enough to just add utf8_encode/decode?
>>>
>>> Did you configure the a compatible charset, e.g. UTF-8 for the 
>>> database backend?
>>
>> At first it was really at ISO8859...
>>
>> But now I set to "UTF-8" with the effect that all words containing 
>> umlauts have "?" now. But I think this is not such a big problem as 
>> there are not yet so many entries.
> 
> And it's the expected behavior since your data in the database was 
> stored with ISO-8859-1.
> 
>> Unfortunately the problem persists...same as described above.
>>
>> So it is actually implemented and should work? This would be very 
>> because then it would mean to just find the error in the config ;-)
> 
> Yes, it should work. Does it work if you manually import an iCalendar 
> file exported from Thunderbird?

Thank you very much.

That works, surprisingly...

But now something other very interesting occurs: When I access the 
calender again with Lightning the appointment is shown as "??" in 
Thunderbird ;-)

Conclusion: Unicode on Clientside gehts ??? on Serverside and Unicode on 
Serverside gehts ??? on Clientside.

So obviously there is a problem on the way with the WebDAV interface.

Best regards,
Luke



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