Imported entries

[pne]

Woo! I has an entries!

(And I has no userpics. Ah well. At least that might make it easier to tell "historical" entries from current ones :D)

Edit: Ah, bummer, polls are broken because I have a basic account here. Ah well; the results would have been irrelevant here anyway since the answers were all on LiveJournal.

And at least one entry imported with an error due to bad UTF-8. Which was kind of expected since I got the same error message when downloading my entries with an archival client. (Related to my use, for a few entries, of a PDA-based LiveJournal client that always posted as Latin-1 even though my journal was set to UTF-8.)

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[afuna]

Yay entries!

And, which entry? That... is weird. I was under the impression that bad UTF-8 entries wouldn't be exported at all, so we wouldn't need to account for them. How'd it error, etc etc?

[pne]

And, which entry?

At least this one. It won't even display for me now -- I just see the subject but no entry text, though I have it backed up at home thanks to the change I made to the exporter (essentially, try decoding the received byte-stream as Latin-1 if decoding it as UTF-8 doesn't work).

I was under the impression that bad UTF-8 entries wouldn't be exported at all

I've also no idea how it managed to post invalid UTF-8; I would've thought that there would be some checking.

Also, AFAIK the client interface has a parameter "version" which has to be set to "1" if you set it at all, which then means you have to provide UTF-8; if you leave off the version, then version 0 is implicitly assumed and text is assumed to be in Latin-1.

So I wonder whether the AvantGo client set the version to "1" yet didn't do UTF-8 as required by the spec, or left off the version and LiveJournal Did The Wrong Thing, or what.

I also don't know how many entries this applies to, since the downloading script stopped at the first error, and had no errors after the code change -- and I don't know whether Dreamwidth only mentions the first error, or all of them. But at least that entry.

How'd it error, etc etc?

I got an inbox message saying:

"Original post: http://pne.livejournal.com/52848.html

* Failed to post: Client error: Invalid text encoding: The text entered is not a valid UTF-8 stream"

And judging by http://pne.dreamwidth.org/2003/03/, it simply ignored the entry (there's nothing for 2003/03/07, the date on the entry in question).

[pthalo]

If you want polls and userpics, you have to switch your account type (temporarily) to paid or seed. http://www.dreamwidth.org/misc/beta.bml

http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/2826.html

[pne]

Ah, I was wondering why some people had Seed Accounts when they weren't even on sale yet.

Though it's too late for that, isn't it? I mean, you can't re-import your entries over the existing ones, can you? (And I'm certainly not going to delete them all by hand so that I can import into an empty-of-LJ-entries journal.)

[pthalo]

open a support request. that's the only thing they're using the support board for right now.

The only entry that I cross posted was there twice after I imported, but that's possibly because I used a different icon on each entry (I didn't have the original icon on dreamwidth at the time). So I'm not sure if an entry that was exactly the same (icon, everything) would be ignored silently or retransferred. You'll have to ask.

Also, for the userpics thing, you could tell it to just import userpics after switching to a seed account. I had imported some userpics manually, with the same keyword and comment but adding a description to each and they weren't imported twice.

[pthalo]

also, I like the way polls were handled on my account. http://pthalo.dreamwidth.org/632648.html