From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tassilo Horn Subject: Timezone/Encoding issues when exporting as ics and importing to Google Calendar Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:32:38 +0200 Message-ID: <87zklt7rfd.fsf@member.fsf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35018) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QTvSo-0004c4-Ja for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:32:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QTvSn-00039T-Er for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:32:54 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:39667) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QTvSn-00039H-7D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:32:53 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QTvSk-0005nK-GA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:32:50 +0200 Received: from tsdh.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.67.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:32:50 +0200 Received: from tassilo by tsdh.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:32:50 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi all, I export all my org-files as icalendar files, push them to some webserver from which google calendar imports them. Basically, that works pretty good except for two things: 1. Encoding: All Umlauts and other non-ASCII chars show up as boxes in google calendar. When visiting some exported ics file and doing M-x describe-coding-system, I get utf-8-unix for those files. Doesn't google calendar support UTF-8? And if so, is there a way to export as latin1 if that is supported by google? 2. Timezone: I live in Germany and thus all my timestamps are CEST. The exported ics file properly declare X-WR-TIMEZONE:CEST. However, since we also have DST, in summer all appointments show up 2 hours late, and in winter my appointments show up 1 hour late. Is there anything I can do about it? The google calendar settings have CEST as timezone... Thanks for any hints! Tassilo