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Yaacov Klapisch - 15 Jan 2008 13:41 GMT

I have OL2003 hebrew with english language pack and menus in english.
I sync my calendar with Pocket PC and the hebrew date appears as a free all
day event. It was generated in the past (three years ago) by a Palm
application. The hebrew dates end this week and I have a program that
generates the new dates. This program generates dates in english characters
and it works.
I need to have the dates in hebrew characters and therefore I wish to edit
the ICS file generated.
I tried various programs: TextPad, Notepad, Wordpad etc... and either I get
blank text or an error message from Outlook that the file is corrupt.
I assume it is because of the encoding. The original ICS generated is ANSI.
Outlook generates UTF-8 but if I modify it with Notepad, I get the corrupt
message and with all other programs I get blanks.
Is there a way to edit ICS files for unicode support?

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Yaacov Klapisch - 15 Jan 2008 16:10 GMT

OK, I found the solution.

The UTF-8 format is good and it works but not with Notepad! Notepad probably
ads some characters that do not conform the ICS format.
The file generated by the program is ANSI, I save it with TextPad as UTF-8
and then Outlook recognises the file and ads the hebrew date.
As soon as I convert the dates to hebrew I will make the file available for
download.

>I have OL2003 hebrew with english language pack and menus in english.
> I sync my calendar with Pocket PC and the hebrew date appears as a free
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> corrupt message and with all other programs I get blanks.
> Is there a way to edit ICS files for unicode support?

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