Tickets :: [#8637] Can't sync tasks with Thunderbird/Lightning

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Summary	Can't sync tasks with Thunderbird/Lightning
Queue	Nag
Queue Version	2.3.3
Type	Bug
State	Resolved
Priority	1. Low
Owners	jan (at) horde (dot) org
Requester	rodolfodias (at) hushmail (dot) com
Created	10/13/2009 (5754 days ago)
Due
Updated	01/13/2010 (5662 days ago)
Assigned	10/13/2009 (5754 days ago)
Resolved	10/14/2009 (5753 days ago)
Github Issue Link
Github Pull Request
Milestone	2.3.4
Patch	No

01/13/2010 12:14:00 AM	CVS Commit	Comment #14	Reply to this comment
Changes have been made in Git for this ticket: MFB: Fix charset when exporting tasks to iCalendar 2.0 (~~Bug #8637~~). http://git.horde.org/diff.php/nag/docs/CHANGES?rt=horde-git&r1=3b32b009f65e84b82287f0629951e54a85729ea9&r2=50342e613515b9061d4fd07694314396a1b8cc1a http://git.horde.org/diff.php/nag/lib/Task.php?rt=horde-git&r1=c894a26da22fc4dbe593fe1d564762795a9b2124&r2=50342e613515b9061d4fd07694314396a1b8cc1a

10/14/2009 09:24:09 PM	Jan Schneider	Assigned to Jan Schneider State ⇒ Resolved Milestone ⇒ 2.3.4

10/14/2009 06:06:54 PM	rodolfodias (at) hushmail (dot) com	Comment #13	Reply to this comment
That works perfectly! Many thanks Jan!

10/14/2009 05:08:39 PM	CVS Commit	Comment #12	Reply to this comment
Changes have been made in Git for this ticket: MFB: Fix charset when exporting tasks to iCalendar 2.0 (~~Bug #8637~~). http://git.horde.org/diff.php/nag/docs/CHANGES?rt=horde-hatchery&r1=3b32b009f65e84b82287f0629951e54a85729ea9&r2=50342e613515b9061d4fd07694314396a1b8cc1a http://git.horde.org/diff.php/nag/lib/Task.php?rt=horde-hatchery&r1=c894a26da22fc4dbe593fe1d564762795a9b2124&r2=50342e613515b9061d4fd07694314396a1b8cc1a

10/14/2009 05:06:28 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #11	Reply to this comment
Please try what I committed.

10/14/2009 05:06:10 PM	CVS Commit	Comment #10	Reply to this comment
Changes have been made in CVS for this ticket: Fix charset when exporting tasks to iCalendar 2.0 (~~Bug #8637~~). http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/nag/docs/CHANGES?rt=horde&r1=1.115.2.121&r2=1.115.2.122&ty=u http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/nag/lib/Driver.php?rt=horde&r1=1.57.2.28&r2=1.57.2.29&ty=u

10/14/2009 04:14:32 PM	rodolfodias (at) hushmail (dot) com	Comment #9	Reply to this comment
No, I really meant the web interface, i.e. the regular tasks frontend that you use with your browser. Ok. Then it is:Encoding: ISO-8859-1.

10/14/2009 03:26:12 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #8	Reply to this comment
No, I really meant the web interface, i.e. the regular tasks frontend that you use with your browser.

10/14/2009 02:59:18 PM	rodolfodias (at) hushmail (dot) com	Comment #7 New Attachment: headers.log	Reply to this comment
How can I check for that? Depends on your browser. There should be some "page properties" or "page encoding" or similar menu entry somewhere. As this is a file and not a webpage I had to use Firefox with the extension "Live HTTP Headers". Anyways it's UTF-8. Full log of the session is attached.

10/14/2009 02:30:55 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #6	Reply to this comment
How can I check for that? Depends on your browser. There should be some "page properties" or "page encoding" or similar menu entry somewhere.

10/14/2009 02:21:02 PM	rodolfodias (at) hushmail (dot) com	Comment #5	Reply to this comment
That file should indeed be UTF-8 encoded. I can't reproduce this, tasks are exported as UTF-8 just fine here. If you export the file, what's the encoding charset of the web interface? How can I check for that? P.S.Be aware that under Kronolith the file is encoded as UTF-8. It just under Nag that this is happening.

10/14/2009 12:48:55 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #4	Reply to this comment
That file should indeed be UTF-8 encoded. I can't reproduce this, tasks are exported as UTF-8 just fine here. If you export the file, what's the encoding charset of the web interface?

10/14/2009 10:27:23 AM	rodolfodias (at) hushmail (dot) com	Comment #3 New Attachment: rdias.ics	Reply to this comment
I get a different error: Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIScriptableUnicodeConverter.convertFromByteArray]" nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)" location: "JS frame :: file:///usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/components/calItemModule.js -> file:///usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/js/calIcsParser.js :: ip_parseFromStream :: line 185" data: no] Source File: file:///usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/components/calItemModule.js -> file:///usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/js/calIcsParser.js Line: 185 I even did a new task list with just one task with accented letters and I can reproduce this with the attached file. Looking at it with an editor I suspect it's encoded with ISO-8859-1 so that could be the problem.

10/13/2009 10:30:26 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #2 Priority ⇒ 1. Low State ⇒ Feedback	Reply to this comment
If you export your tasks to an iCalendar file and import that manually to Lightning, does it work?

10/13/2009 04:52:44 PM	rodolfodias (at) hushmail (dot) com	Comment #1 Priority ⇒ 3. High State ⇒ Unconfirmed Patch ⇒ No Milestone ⇒ Summary ⇒ Can't sync tasks with Thunderbird/Lightning Type ⇒ Bug Queue ⇒ Nag	Reply to this comment
Thunderbird/Lightning tries sync with my server and I get this error (from the Error Console in Thunderbird): Warning: There has been an error reading data for calendar: rdias tasks. Error code: CAL_UTF8_DECODING_FAILED. Description: An error occured while decoding an iCalendar (ics) file as UTF-8. Check that the file, including symbols and accented letters, is encoded using the UTF-8 character encoding. Warning: There has been an error reading data for calendar: rdias tasks. Error code: READ_FAILED. Description: I'm using the following URL: https://myserver.local/horde/rpc.php/nag/rdias/rdias.ics Using the same server and client, my calendar syncs fine even using accented letters.