GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 154548
When synchronizing my Palm iso-8859-2 encoded text gets corrupted, both when sent to the palm, and when received
Last modified: 2006-08-28 08:18:54 UTC
Distribution: Debian 3.1 Package: gnome-pilot Severity: major Version: GNOME2.6.1 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: Debian Synopsis: When synchronizing my Palm iso-8859-2 encoded text gets corrupted, both when sent to the palm, and when received Bugzilla-Product: gnome-pilot Bugzilla-Component: general Bugzilla-Version: unspecified Description: Description of Problem: I'm using gnome-pilot with evolution (LANG=pl_PL or pl_PL.iso-8859-2) and with Palm (iso-8859-2). However after synchronization I get the following mess: in evolution my national characters are converted into the iso-8859-1 characters with the same codes, in Palm - my national characters are converted into the UTF-8 unicode characters. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Enter some memos or scheduler events with iso-8859-2 both in Evolution and in Palm 2. Perform synchronization 3. Check the data transferred Actual Results: The character are messed as described above Expected Results: The characters should be transferred correctly How often does this happen? Always Additional Information: ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2004-10-05 07:28 ------- Unknown platform unknown. Setting to default platform "Other". Unknown milestone "unknown" in product "gnome-pilot". Setting to default milestone for this product, '---' Setting to default status "UNCONFIRMED". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
At long last, pilot-link 0.12.0 has been released. With 0.12.0 it should be possible to set the environment variable PILOT_CHARSET to the ISO-8859-2 and then restart gpilotd. Now that this functionality is available in the pilot-link library we may add gui support for selecting the charset in gnome-pilot, but the workaround should work out of the box. Note: gnome-pilot 2.0.14 will support pilot-link 0.12.0. The current gnome-pilot and gnome-pilot-conduits CVS has been ported, but the evolution team have yet to update their conduits (shouldn't take long, a patch is being reviewed)