[Shotwell] Fwd: Today, Shotwell can not upload photos to FB

[Adam Dingle]

Erasmo,

great - thanks for letting us know that this fixed the problem.  
Publishing to either Flickr or Facebook fails today when captions have 
non-ASCII characters (http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2629).  We're still 
hoping to fix this for 0.8.

adam

On 12/07/2010 10:46 AM, Erasmo Perez wrote:
> Hi dear Shotwell community:
>
> It is a real pleasure for me to inform you that once all the offending
> pictures names had been modified in order to follow a strict adherence to an
> ASCII-only format (removing ill-characters like "ñ" or "é") all the photos
> in the collections from Shotwell are correctly uploaded to (and appear
> instantly in) the Photos section of my Facebook account.
>
> With the names of the pictures changed to an ASCII-only format, Shotwell
> Connect is working like a charm :-)
>
> I would like to thank all the Shotwell community (developers and users) for
> you very well appreciated software and helpful guidance.
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Kind regards
>
> Erasmo
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Erasmo Perez<perez.erasmo at gmail.com>
> Date: 3 December 2010 13:35
> Subject: Re: [Shotwell] Today, Shotwell can not upload photos to FB
> To: shotwell at lists.yorba.org
>
>
> Hi Lucas:
>
> You may be right, because just before I leave house for work I made a last
> test uploading another pic and Shotwell Connect worked, but the original pic
> I intended to upload continued being not published by FB. I then suspected
> that maybe there was something wrong with the first picture. On the road to
> work I figured that I should extract the exif headers from both pictures and
> send them to this list, but that would be tomorrow when I return home from
> work.
>
> If it is the case that the ill-formed name is the culprit of the lack of
> publication of the pic in FB, the solution will be easier :-)
>
> As soon as I get back home I will try renaming the first pic with an
> ASCII-only name and I will let you know the code bahaviour.
>
> Thank you very much :-)
>
> Kind regards for your great help
>
> Erasmo
>
>
> On 3 December 2010 13:17, Lucas Beeler<lucas at yorba.org>  wrote:
>
>> Hi Erasmo,
>>
>> We had a similar problem with Picasa Web Albums that turned out to be
>> a text encoding issue. I noticed that you were trying to upload a file
>> named "Bebé 096.jpg", which clearly contains an accented character
>> (the "é"). To help diagnose this problem could you try uploading a
>> photo whose filename only contains US ASCII characters (i.e., the
>> letters a-z upper- and lower-case without any accented characters and
>> the digits 0-9 and write me back (i) letting me know whether the
>> ASCII-only upload was successful; and (ii) if the upload wasn't
>> successful, attaching the log output as per Jani's post.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Lucas
>>
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