Re: [Evolution] Insert error

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

libiconv is part of glibc.

if the file content is not valid UTF-8, evolution tries to convert it to
UTF-8 with the assumption that the content is in the charset specified
by Edit->Character Encoding in the composer window.

I feel this is a completely reasonable assumption. don't you? :-)

Jeff

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 17:51, Roland Orre wrote:
> 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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