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): > abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxyz� > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
