Re: [Barry-devel] International charsets bug

[Torsten K. <tk...@tk...>]

Great! Thanks for your help Chris :-).
I will test your changes at Wednesday and let you know the results of my 
tests by Thursday.

- Torsten


Chris Frey schrieb:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:05:10AM +0100, TKL-Soft Vertrieb wrote:
>   
>> Because this is a frustrating (but small?) bug making barry impossible 
>> to use seriously for a lot of people in the world, imho you should place 
>> this bugfix on top of your roadmap.
>>
>> We are willing to spend 100 € to the first one who corrected that bug 
>> till the end of 2008.
>> Maybe 100 € is not very much but due to the fact that this is a serious 
>> bug which should be corrected anyway this money is intended as a small 
>> incentive.
>>     
>
> At long last, we may be close to a solution to this bug. :-)
>
> I've updated the latest git/CVS with some changes to the library that
> support converting from the Blackberry's WINDOWS-1252 charset to
> a user-specified iconv target.  Basically, the only one that logically
> works is the UTF-8 target, since that is full Unicode in 8bit strings,
> but you can play with other settings using btool, if you're curious.
>
> I've updated the opensync plugin to use this as well, and now all contact
> string data will be in UTF-8.  I don't have time tonight to test whether
> opensync likes this or not, but btool appears to spit out the right UTF-8
> contact data, so hopes are high.
>
> Only the Contact record class supports string conversions so far, although
> all the other record classes have been updated to follow the new API.
> It's just a matter of some grunt work to go through and make sure all
> string fields get the proper attention.
>
> Please download and compile the latest git/CVS and let know of any
> problems you encounter.
>
> Enjoy :-)
>
> - Chris
>
>
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