Re: [Orgmode] Bug: org-mobile Bad file encoding [6.33trans]
At Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:27:06 +0200, Ben Alexander wrote: Well, the problem came back :-( Sorry to hear that. Annoying. Clearly there is some emacs magic going on here, because I thought of trying the £ symbol, but in another, smaller, file, and when I tried to save the file, I was told: These default coding systems were tried to encode text in the buffer `birthdays.org': iso-8859-2-unix However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode: iso-8859-2-unix cannot encode these: £ The £ symbol is available in 8859-1 but not -2 unfortunately. I thought the earlier emacs code specified utf-8 as the default coding system I find the whole coding system in Emacs beyond comprehension, having been fighting it for a long time now. With respect to org, although not necessarily for mobile org, I have solved all my problems by putting the following line as the first line of every single org file I have: # -*- coding: utf-8; -*- (not indented) All my problems have disappeared even though this is not a recommended solution, from what I understand. HTH. ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Bug: org-mobile Bad file encoding [6.33trans]
Well, the problem came back :-( I tried to go to the agendas.org file on my WebDAV server and save it in utf-8 manually (using the command M-x set-buffer-file-encoding utf-8) but because the checksums.dat don't change, the iPod doesn't reload the newly saved file. So I deleted checksums.dat and then it copied all the files and the agendas.org file showed up properly. Then I tried one more time, making a small change on my laptop and trying to save the agendas.org file manually *before* doing a sync on the iPod, and now I can't make it work. The agendas.org file is the only file that won't display at all, giving the Bad file encoding message instead of the file text. Yet on the WebDAV share, from my laptop, I can cat the file, no problem. I have now removed the only non-ascii character from my org file that is picked up by the agenda (the letter ă, lowercase-a-with-breve- accent). And so now there is no 'bad-encoding'. Clearly there is some emacs magic going on here, because I thought of trying the £ symbol, but in another, smaller, file, and when I tried to save the file, I was told: These default coding systems were tried to encode text in the buffer `birthdays.org': iso-8859-2-unix However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode: iso-8859-2-unix cannot encode these: £ I thought the earlier emacs code specified utf-8 as the default coding system Strangely (to me) the a-with-breve did not have an issue in the default coding system. I once had a problem with my original org files, but now I can't recreate that problem either. Sorry to bring bad news. On 2009-Nov-23, at 20:53, Ben Alexander wrote: I added the following lines (to my ~/.emacs file), as suggested by Richard and they work immediately. For what it's worth, I am running on Mac OS X 10.5.8 on an Intel MacBook, and I've had it for a few years and tweaked any number of little things. This may be a 'default' problem, but it might also be just because I've copied old customization buffers forward from other machines. Thanks, Richard, for the tip, and thanks to all the rest of you for the org-mode community. -Ben On 2009-Nov-23, at 02:37, Richard Moreland wrote: Hi Ben, I'm replying off-list because I'm not sure this is the answer, but: (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8) (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8) Between that mess of options, it seems that you be able to have your files default to UTF-8 (which is the encoding MobileOrg is looking for). If this works for you, would please let the list know so the solution is archived? I'll also update the website with the appropriate details. Thanks! Richard On Nov 22, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Ben Alexander wrote: Thanks for org-mode and MobileOrg! I'm very grateful for all the helpful hints I've seen on the mailing list too. I an have a small problem with MobileOrg. After doing an org-mobile-push and syncing the results to the iPod touch, the agendas.org file doesn't appear on the iPod. Instead, it appears as if the only heading is Bad file encoding and the body text is Unable to detect file encoding, please re-save this file using the proper encoding. At first I thought it was because I've got things like the pounds-sterling, t-with-a-comma, a-with-breve, and i-with-circumflex characters in my text (some of which contains Romanian, hence the especially odd t-with-a-comma). But I'm pretty sure I've expunged those characters from my files, and anyway, the agendas.org file should only contain the characters that my original org files contain. So, I'm happy enough to use the proper encoding, but I don't know what that is, and I don't save the adgendas.org file myself: org-mobile- push must do that on my behalf. If it is relevant, I am using a 5dollarhosting.com website for my webdav server, not my local machine, so I don't have complete control over the webserver configuration. I'm stumped as to what I should try next. Any pointers will be appreciated, Ben Alexander == Emacs : GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.7.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2009-06-07 on scarlett.local - Aquamacs Distribution 1.8c Package: Org-mode version 6.33trans current state: == (setq org-remember-default-headline Remember Tasks org-todo-keyword-faces '((PROJECT :foreground blue :weight bold)) org-special-ctrl-a/e t org-agenda-custom-commands '((b Buy tags #(+TODO=\BUY\ 0 11 (face org-warning)) nil) (A Angella related questions tags #(angella 0 7 (face org-warning)) nil) (u unscheduled todo #(TODO|DEFER 0 10 (face org-warning)) ((org-agenda-skip-function (lambda nil (org-agenda-skip-entry-if (quote scheduled) (quote deadline) (quote regexp) [^\n]+)))
Re: [Orgmode] Bug: org-mobile Bad file encoding [6.33trans]
I added the following lines (to my ~/.emacs file), as suggested by Richard and they work immediately. For what it's worth, I am running on Mac OS X 10.5.8 on an Intel MacBook, and I've had it for a few years and tweaked any number of little things. This may be a 'default' problem, but it might also be just because I've copied old customization buffers forward from other machines. Thanks, Richard, for the tip, and thanks to all the rest of you for the org-mode community. -Ben On 2009-Nov-23, at 02:37, Richard Moreland wrote: Hi Ben, I'm replying off-list because I'm not sure this is the answer, but: (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8) (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8) Between that mess of options, it seems that you be able to have your files default to UTF-8 (which is the encoding MobileOrg is looking for). If this works for you, would please let the list know so the solution is archived? I'll also update the website with the appropriate details. Thanks! Richard On Nov 22, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Ben Alexander wrote: Thanks for org-mode and MobileOrg! I'm very grateful for all the helpful hints I've seen on the mailing list too. I an have a small problem with MobileOrg. After doing an org-mobile-push and syncing the results to the iPod touch, the agendas.org file doesn't appear on the iPod. Instead, it appears as if the only heading is Bad file encoding and the body text is Unable to detect file encoding, please re-save this file using the proper encoding. At first I thought it was because I've got things like the pounds-sterling, t-with-a-comma, a-with-breve, and i-with-circumflex characters in my text (some of which contains Romanian, hence the especially odd t-with-a-comma). But I'm pretty sure I've expunged those characters from my files, and anyway, the agendas.org file should only contain the characters that my original org files contain. So, I'm happy enough to use the proper encoding, but I don't know what that is, and I don't save the adgendas.org file myself: org-mobile- push must do that on my behalf. If it is relevant, I am using a 5dollarhosting.com website for my webdav server, not my local machine, so I don't have complete control over the webserver configuration. I'm stumped as to what I should try next. Any pointers will be appreciated, Ben Alexander == Emacs : GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.7.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2009-06-07 on scarlett.local - Aquamacs Distribution 1.8c Package: Org-mode version 6.33trans current state: == (setq org-remember-default-headline Remember Tasks org-todo-keyword-faces '((PROJECT :foreground blue :weight bold)) org-special-ctrl-a/e t org-agenda-custom-commands '((b Buy tags #(+TODO=\BUY\ 0 11 (face org-warning)) nil) (A Angella related questions tags #(angella 0 7 (face org-warning)) nil) (u unscheduled todo #(TODO|DEFER 0 10 (face org-warning)) ((org-agenda-skip-function (lambda nil (org-agenda-skip-entry-if (quote scheduled) (quote deadline) (quote regexp) [^\n]+))) (org-agenda-overriding-header Unscheduled TODO entries: ) (org-agenda-sorting-strategy (quote (todo-state-up ) ) org-agenda-files '(/Users/ben/Reference/GTD/Reference.org /Users/ ben/Reference/GTD/birthdays.org /Users/ben/Reference/GTD/ craiova.org /Users/ben/Reference/GTD/diary.org /Users/ben/ Reference/GTD/filetabs.org /Users/ben/Reference/GTD/projects.org) org-agenda-include-diary t org-agenda-window-setup 'current-window org-hide-leading-stars t org-completion-use-ido t org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe) org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-done t org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current) org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled t org-odd-levels-only t org-log-state-notes-insert-after-drawers t org-special-ctrl-k t org-agenda-sorting-strategy '((agenda time-up tag-up) (todo category-keep priority-down) (tags category-keep priority-down) (search category-keep)) org-deadline-warning-days 7 org-stuck-projects '(/PROJECT (TODO BUY) nil ) org-export-preprocess-hook '(org-export-blocks-preprocess) org-mobile-inbox-for-pull ~/Reference/GTD/from-mobile.org org-tab-first-hook '(org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe org-hide- block-toggle-maybe) org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer) org-cycle-global-at-bob t org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p org-todo-keywords '((sequence TODO(t) WAITING(w) DONE(d!)) (type PROJECT(p) CLOSED(c!)) (sequence BUY(b) BOUGHT(B!))) org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text) org-default-notes-file ~/Reference/GTD/projects.org org-directory ~/Reference/GTD/ org-tag-alist '((:startgroup) (#(ben 0 3 (face nil)) .
