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 <loochao@gmail.com> writes:
> Subject: [Orgmode] Org Mobile Setting and file encoding
> From: Chao LU <loochao@gmail.com>
> To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:54:49 -0500
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> 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
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