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List:       evolution
Subject:    Re: [Evolution] Sync Evolution with Palm - encoding problem
From:       JP Rosevear <jpr () ximian ! com>
Date:       2003-11-27 23:58:20
Message-ID: 1069977498.7489.7.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 11:33, Josef Káňa wrote:
> Hi,
> I use sync between Evolution and my Handspring Treo (Palm OS). It works
> fine. But I have problem with encoding. Evolution (Linux box) use UTF8
> encoding while my Treo can use only cp1250 or iso8859-2. So I have non
> ASCII characters messed up. Is there any solution? 
> I guess one way is to have an option for  conduits - encodings on both
> sides (Palm and PC). So all (like contacts, ToDo, ...) would be recoded
> while synchonizing. Does anything like this exist?

Yah, sadly this is a known problem,
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14611.  You can hack
pilot-link in the conversion routines to use iconv to go to something
other than 8859-1 but clearly this is not ideal.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr@ximian.com>
Ximian, Inc.


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