Hi Joost, Thanks a lot, this helps, after I convert all the org files I have, then try Mobile org again, all the files could be decoded in MobileOrg now. Best, Chao On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Joost Helberg wrote: > Chao, > > whenever mobileorg fails loading the file and converting it into an > UTF8 string, the error message about encoding is presented. > > The cause of your problem can be many things: > - the file is incorrectly recognised as encrypted > - the file is incorrectly recognised as not-encrypted > - the encoding is not utf-8 and there are offending bytes > - the parsing of the index file fails somehow > > To make sure utf-8 is all you do, evaluate (in .emacs e.g.): > > (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) > > Furthermore, make sure you try everything not encrypted. > > Also, this helped with me, don't run the latest git org-mode against > production release mobileorg. Somehow my mobileorg on iphone failed on > the first lines of the index file. mobileorg on Android didn't fail > however. > > Good luck! > > Joost Helberg > > >>>>> "Chao" == Chao LU writes: > > Subject: [Orgmode] Org Mobile Setting and file encoding > > From: Chao LU > > To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > > Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:54:49 -0500 > > > Dear list, > > > I'm trying to set up Mobile Org, but there's some problem, > > > All my org files are placed in in ~/My Dropbox/org/org, as following: > > ----- > > (defvar org-dir (concat Dropbox "/org") "org dir") > > (defvar org-source-dir (concat Dropbox "/org/org") "org source dir") > > (defvar pub-html-dir (concat Dropbox "/org/public_html") "html dir") > > (defvar org-mobile-dir (concat Dropbox "/MobileOrg") "org mobile dir") > > > Then I set Mobile Org like this: > > (setq org-mobile-directory org-source-dir) > > (setq org-mobile-force-id-on-agenda-items nil) > > (setq org-mobile-inbox-for-pull (concat org-source-dir "/mobile.org")) > > > After org-mobile-push command, the agenda is generated, but in Mobile > Org, > > it could not be opened, > > and the error message is bad file encoding, unable to detect file > encoding, > > please re-save this file using UTF-8. > > > So how could I figure out what the file encoding of my org files, and if > > not, how to convert them (there's quite a bit) to UTF-8, > > and in the future how to save the files automatically to UTF-8 with the > > Chinese support? > > > The coding system is really confusing, thanks a lot!! > > > Chao > > -- > Snow B.V. http://snow.nl >