[EventCalendar] Re: calendar output completely broken

[Dr. Peter Troxler]

hmmm, just found out that eliminating the TZID info altogether allows  
sunbird to import the file ... now I have the impression that sunbird  
is even more broken than gCal when it comes to implementing rfc2445,  
and I think I'll definitely stop debugging here ;-)

/ pt

On 20-sep-2007, at 20:37, Dr. Peter Troxler wrote:

> Hi Claire
>
> (back in debugging mode again)
>
> I've in parallel implemented the changes on one of the sites I'm  
> running (<http://www.scope34.org>, alas it's all in foreign  
> (german)), and from this site URL linking into gCal worked
>
> see yourself <webcal://www.scope34.org/?ec3_ical>
>
> (however, in Sunbird I do get an error "invalid  
> timezone" [Exception... "Component returned failure code:  
> 0x804a0001 [calIIcalComponent.startTime]"  nsresult: "0x804a0001  
> (<unknown>)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///Applications/ 
> Sunbird.app/Contents/MacOS/js/calItemBase.js :: anonymous :: line  
> 526"  data: no]
>  .... my fix sends "Europe/Zurich" which I believe is a valid  
> timezone and sunbirds mac timezone implementation maybe a little  
> incomplete...)
>
> this is actually what happenes if I edit your ical file down to  
> only the first entry, which leads me to believe that the UTF-8  
> issue actually does have to do with some funny characters
>
> maybe you try to import this below into sunbird just to check ...?
>
> BEGIN:VCALENDAR
> VERSION:2.0
> X-WR-CALNAME:cops and robbers
> BEGIN:VEVENT
> SUMMARY:Jeffrey Lewis & Jack Lewis\, Hands and Fingers\, Quack Quack
> URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.copsandrobbers.net/2005/08/24/jeffrey- 
> lewis-jack-lewis-hands-and-fingers-quack-quack/
> UID:1-http://www.copsandrobbers.net/2005/08/24/jeffrey-lewis-jack- 
> lewis-hands-and-fingers-quack-quack/
> DESCRIPTION:[by: copsandrobbers]
> TRANSP:OPAQUE
> DTSTART;TZID=UTC-1:20050822T200000
> DTEND;TZID=UTC-1:20050822T200000
> END:VEVENT
> END:VCALENDAR
>
>
> / pt
>
> On 20-sep-2007, at 11:41, claire circuit wrote:
>
>>> could it be that you have a corrupted post somewhere? e.g. <http://
>>> www.copsandrobbers.net/2007/05/17/i-concur-launch-night-
>>> brudenell-31st-may/> gives me funny characters on the screen with  
>>> safari
>>
>> i think the funny characters come from WP changing the database to
>> latin in 2.3. it's definitely a database encoding problem.
>>
>> since the feed loads OK in iCal, and validates, i can't help thinking
>> that the plugin is just generating a field or variable that google  
>> and
>> sunbird don't like.
>>
>> claire
>>
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