5 messages in com.googlegroups.google-calendar-help-dataapiRe: Search with international characters
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Paco27 Mar 2008 05:26 
Austin (Google)28 Mar 2008 16:18 
Paco30 Mar 2008 09:07 
Austin (Google)31 Mar 2008 09:57 
Paco31 Mar 2008 23:00 
Subject:Re: Search with international characters
From:Austin (Google) (api.@google.com)
Date:03/28/2008 04:18:05 PM
List:com.googlegroups.google-calendar-help-dataapi

Hi Paco,

I think this because the q query parameter is not url encoded. Use this website

http://www.albionresearch.com/misc/urlencode.php

to perform url encoding on Mañana, you will get Ma%C3%B1ana

and use this as the query parameter for your feed -

http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/default/private/full?q=Ma%C3%B1ana

This should solve your problem

Hope it helps, Austin

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Paco <fmar@gmail.com> wrote:

I have been using a Visual Basic application to Add Google Calendar events. I am able to add, search and delete those events.

The problem arise when I use international characters (like spanish ñ character UTF-8 code decimal 195.177).

When I try to add an event with title "Mañana" I provide the XML entry with UTF-8 codification for the title, so the string "Mañana" is used. The event is added and I saw "Mañana" as event in Google Calendar instead of "Mañana".

Once the event is added I receive and XML response with the entry just added and the string "Mañana" is received. The same string is recived if I ask for the whole events in my own calendar.

Now I want to search for the event just added, so I use

http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/fmartinezbello%40gmail.com/private/full?q=Mañana

Status was 200 and response return 0 search results. The same when I used "Content-Type", "text/html; charset='utf-8'" in the request header. Also the same results when I used

http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/fmartinezbello%40gmail.com/private/full?q=Mañana

Any help or idea?

I have already read the thread http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi/browse_thread/thread/7fedfa2cefe517f/8e319e27763c0a95?lnk=gst&q=search#8e319e27763c0a95

Thanks Paco