Re: [Evolution] Insert error

[Roland Orre <orre bacon su se>]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> works fine for me... must be a bug in your libiconv then I suppose.

I guess what you mean is that evolution is relaying on some library
for the interpretation and conversion of input streams. However,
there is nothing called libiconv anywhere on my system. There is
a program called iconv though, which works perfectly. This program,
has to be given explicit information about what formats to convert
between. This means that there is some interpretation of the input
stream going on somewhere and the only place where I can see this
be done is within evolution. Is it possible that evolution ignores
what is set as the default file format? Even the command "file"
reports a file I tried to insert in evolution as "ISO-8859" text
but I guess "file" is not used for the interpretation.

        Roland Orre

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> works fine for me... must be a bug in your libiconv then I suppose.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 00:57, Roland Orre wrote:
> > This seems to be a bug to me.
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > that error means that the composer cannot convert your text file from
> > > your locale charset into UTF-8 as it contains invalid byte sequences.
> > >
> > > probably means that the text file was not saved in the same charset that
> > > you have setup your evolution to use.
> >
> > A file of type iso-8859-1 can not contain invalid byte sequences as it
> > only consists of single bytes. My locale character set is iso-8859-1
> > and  my settings in evolution are iso-8859-1 as default character set.
> >
> > When I tried to insert a file with the following content:
> > abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxyz
> > it works, but if I add a character from the upper code plane
> > (in this case 0xE5):
> > abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxyzå
> >
> > I get the following error:
> > Error loading file '/home/orre/test1.txt':
> > Channel terminates in a partial character
> >
> > This error message clearly shows that evolution is trying to
> > interpret a character with the highest bit set as a sequence.
> > If it would expect iso-8859-1 as the file format, it would not
> > expect a sequence of characters.
> >
> > As I mentioned earlier, this is also the case if I'm pasting into
> > the buffer from e.g. emacs, then nothing is inserted if there are
> > any eight bit characters, but if I read the same file into e.g.
> > openoffice and copy/paste it from there it works.
> >
> >     Best regards
> >     Roland
> >
> > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 02:13, Roland Orre wrote:
> > > > I had written my message in emacs and then intended to insert
> > > > it into a mail being composed. Evolution responds with:
> > > >
> > > > Error loading file '/home/orre/doc/avtal/reply-offer1.txt':
> > > > Invalid byte sequence in conversion input.
> > > >
> > > > Hmm.. by definition you should not be able to get this kind of
> > > > error from a text file. I guess it has some prejudicies about
> > > > the file being Unicode or Mime or something, but... how to
> > > > insert a simple text (iso8859-1) file...
> > > >
> > > > I could not even just cut and paste it. Every 8-bit character I
> > > > had to type on the keyboard.
> > > >
> > > >         Roland
> > > >
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