Re: [Barry-devel] Syncing with BlackBerry - how could you forget accents ?????

[Chris F. <cd...@fo...>]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:57:09PM +0100, Pierre Pietri wrote:
> Hello Mr Frey,

Hi,

(CC'ing the list, to keep the conversation useful for all)


> First, many thanks for your rapid, though not much encouraging, answer!
> 
> Second, I made an experiment which leads me to a suggestion. Please just
> spend one minute to read that.
> 
> The experiment was just to convert my address book database to LDIF
> format using  btool -c.
> In terms of contents, the output was incomparably better than what I
> obtained with msynctool. All the international characters inside my
> address book (essentially, diacritic European characters) pass
> correctly, and the records are not truncated and seem well extracted
> (despite a few strange cases where such trivial fields as PostalAddress
> are forgotten).

This is a good test.  Thanks!  It would seem to point to a possible
bug in the plugin, or at least some part of opensync along the way.
I'm guessing it is a Barry plugin issue, but haven't looked at it
in detail yet.


> The suggestion is to avoid the need for painful reverse engineering by
> simply taking benefits of a work that seems to have been already done
> for btool.
> This could be done
>  - either by invoking btool functions from msynctool,
>  - or, if not possible, by using the proper btool library modules,
>  - or, if not possible, by getting inspiration from the btool sources
> and algorithms.
> 
> Maybe this is a "wrong good idea", and I'm breaking down doors already
> open.
> What is your opinion ?

I know that I tackled this issue with syncing last year, based on a
feature request, but the original requester didn't respond whether
it worked for them or not.  Looks like I'll have to revisit it
when I have time.

Would you be willing to help test new development versions?  It would
require some compiling on your end.

Thanks,
- Chris