[Opensync-users] sync Nokia 6230/Evolution: sync does not complete when contact contains image, charset conversion fails

[Ulf M. <ulf...@gm...>]

I am using opensync+msynctool 0.34 from Debian/experimental to sync the
contact database of a Nokia 6230 cellphone (syncml-obex-client) with
Evolution 2.12.2 (Debian unstable; evo2-sync) via bluetooth. The group
configuration files are attached. Syncing was done via msynctool;
initially, the address database of the phone was empty.

The connection was established but the phone display went off after
showing a progress bar for a while. The normal phone menu appeared again
shortly afterwards, and the msynctool program seemed to hang. The last
lines of output were:

        ...
        Sent a entry 117 to member 1 (syncml-obex-client). Changetype
        ADDED
        contact sink of member 1 of type syncml-obex-client had an
        error: Command is too large
        Sent a entry 132 to member 1 (syncml-obex-client). Changetype
        ADDED
        Sent a entry 131 to member 1 (syncml-obex-client). Changetype
        ADDED
        Sent a entry 130 to member 1 (syncml-obex-client). Changetype
        ADDED
        Sent a entry 129 to member 1 (syncml-obex-client). Changetype
        ADDED
        Sent a entry 128 to member 1 (syncml-obex-client). Changetype
        ADDED
        Sent a entry 127 to member 1 (syncml-obex-client). Changetype
        ADDED
        Sent a entry 126 to member 1 (syncml-obex-client). Changetype
        ADDED
        Sent a entry 125 to member 1 (syncml-obex-client). Changetype
        ADDED
        Sent a entry 124 to member 1 (syncml-obex-client). Changetype
        ADDED

The phone had indeed received all contacts but one which had an image
attached. After removing the image, sync'ing worked. However, names
which contained letters with accents etc. were not displayed correctly.
Evolution runs within a session with UTF-8 locale, and opensync seems to
transmit two-byte characters to the phone, which is probably using a
single-byte character set. I found an older opensync mailing list
contribution stating that utf-8 cannot be converted correctly -- is that
still true?

I'd appreciate any suggestions how to fix the charset problem ... If you
need further information, please let me know.

Thanks! Ulf

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 Ulf Mehlig    <ulf...@gm...>
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