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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Kpilot charset problems
From:       Adriaan de Groot <groot () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-09-02 16:03:29
Message-ID: 200609021803.29245.groot () kde ! org
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On Saturday 26 August 2006 13:58, Jean Hoderd wrote:
> The problem is that all characters with accents appeared wrong
> in kpilot.  I checked its charset options, and by default it was
> set to iso8859-15.  Now, I don't know which charset is used by
> PalmOS, but I reckon it must be different.

Probably 8859-1, but it can be different in any given palm and I don't think 
there's a way to ask for the device's settings. Some are even in hebrew, 
which is funky unless you don't know about it and sync it as if it's a 
latin-1 device :(

> But that's not the worst of it: though I haven't changed the data
> in kpilot, during subsequent synchs, all the accented characters
> now also appear weird in the Palm itself!   

KPilot thinks the data on the desktop -- with broken characters due to 
misinterpreting the charset -- is correct and copies it back.

> Is there anyway I may be able to fix this problem?


Fix the entries in KPilot, and those ought to overwrite the entries in the 
Pilot again, now with the correct encoding.

> is in iso8859-1 or iso8859-15.  The thing is: though kpilot's
> address conduit has an "export to csv" option, I can find no
> corresponding import option).

The right tool is probably something on the command line, or going through 
KAddressbook.

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