UTF-8 calendar names not displayed correctly

[epilys]

I have a calendar with a greek title, and both in khal printcalendars and in the event editor in ikhal I see a blank space instead of the name. Greek event titles appear correctly.

In the debug logs, I see

Found no or empty file `displayname`

for the greek calendar. And in the config print I get:

debug: Using config:                                                              
debug: [calendars]                                                     
debug:   [[]]
debug: ....

I have metadata = ["displayname", "color"] in vdirsyncer config but the displayname file doesn't get created.
Creating a displayname file in the calendar's vdir shows the calendar name. But I have other calendars in ascii with no displayname files and khal deduces their name from the path correctly (I think).

[andreas-bulling]

maybe related to #640?

[epilys]

No, it isn't related.

[geier]

can you show the part of your config file that deals with that calendar?

[epilys]

khal:

[[Προσωπικό]]
path = ~/.calendars/Προσωπικό/
type = discover

[locale]
local_timezone = Europe/Athens
default_timezone = Europe/Athens
timeformat = %H:%M
dateformat = %Y-%m-%d
longdateformat = %Y-%m-%d
datetimeformat = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M
longdatetimeformat = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M

vdirsyncer:

[pair nextcloud_cal]
a = "nextcal_local"
b = "nextcal_remote"
collections = ["from a", "from b"]
metadata = ["displayname", "color"]

[storage nextcal_local]
type = "filesystem"
path = "~/.calendars/"
fileext = ".ics"
encoding = "utf-8"

[storage nextcal_remote]
type = "caldav"
url = --NEXTCLOUD URL--

[WhyNotHugo]

Can you make sure khal is using a supported python version? The output of these should be enough:

head -n 1 $(which khal)
A="$(head -n 1 $(which khal))" && echo $(which ${A:15})
A="$(head -n 1 $(which khal))" && eval ${A:2} --version

[epilys]

It's Python 3.6.0.

Can you reproduce this on your end?

[geier]

No, I can't reproduce this on my end:

% cat ~/.config/khal/config
[calendars]
[[Προσωπικό]]
path = ~/.local/share/khal/calendars/Προσωπικό/*
type = discover
% khal printcalendars
σωπικό
work
privat
test
% ls ~/.local/share/khal/calendars/Προσωπικό/
σωπικό/       home/         test/         work/
% cat ~/.local/share/khal/calendars/Προσωπικό/σωπικό/displayname
cat: /home/cg/.local/share/khal/calendars/Προσωπικό/σωπικό/displayname: No such file or directory

(calendar home has a displayname set to private)

What version of python and khal are you using? What OS and how are those filenames encoded?
I have tested this with python 3.4.6 on FreeBSD 11.0 with utf-8.

[geier]

any news on this?

[epilys]

Sorry, I've lost the config and don't use khal very much lately. But even on your own output the name isn't parsed correctly (khal printcalendars gives 'σωπικό' instead of 'Προσωπικό')

I was using OpenBSD 6.0 and Python 3.4 and the then master branch.