Re: org-caldav: New version with proper two-way sync

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

David,

I'm following up on my own posts...  how uncool!  ;-)

I've tracked down the root of the various problems I have 
encountered with the synchronisation.  It all comes down to 
character sets.  I have some entries that have UTF-8 characters 
that are not present in ASCII, specifically accented characters 
and similar (latin1, basically, but not exclusively).  Any such 
entries cause the synchronisation to fail. 

Resuming a failed synchronisation seems to forget to try to bring 
in the external calendar entries into org?  In other words, 
resuming doesn't really resume but seems to start at some later 
point.  Not sure.

In any case, temporarily, I have commented out the problem entries 
from my org agenda files and everything now works very well 
indeed, including two way synchronisation of creating, deleting 
and changing.

The fact that descriptions are not synchronised for changed 
entries is something I understand but probably need to think about 
some more (in terms of default behaviour).  Is there a practical 
limitation on the size of the description entry that could be 
synchronised?  The default is 100 but would there be any harm in 
having this 1, 2 or even 3 orders of magnitude larger?  Or even 
unlimited?  Just wondering.

Anyway, with respect to my problems, would you please have a look 
to see if you are assuming ASCII or similar and whether there is 
anything you can do about this?  I (and many others, I assume) 
really do need to be able to work in UTF-8 at the very least.  I 
am hooked on org-caldav already and would hate to have to go back 
to my old system! 

Thanks again,
eric

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