Comments on: Why Desktop Blogging Clients Rock

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:57:29 +0000

Patrick, many thanks for the detailed feedback. It’s a pity BlogDesk doesn’t support non-latin character sets. Unfortunately, it’s not open-source (but closed source freeware), so there’s little hope someone else could speed things up on that side.

Some alternatives are:
- Zoundry Raven: I’ve tried it myself, and it seemed not bad at all. I think you can post to multiple blogs with this one, too. But it’s MUCH more heavyweight.
- Qumana: Should be similar to Raven, but it never worked on my PC, so I can’t really tell.
- Windows Live Writer: This is a typical Micorsoft application. Packed with features, but not the real ones (like multi-posting). After they switched to a web-only installer, I gave up checking out.

By: Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:14:34 +0000

It has been certified by BlogDesk support that

Unfortunately BlogDesk does not support chinese (or any other
non-latin) character set.

By: Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:12:36 +0000

I spent 2 more hours on BlogDesk today … it works OK with posts written in English, BUT Chinese :<. I sent message to support of blogdesk anyway …. as below:

Hi,

I tested blogdesk with a NEW blog (WordPress v2.7.1) installed on my personal server.

The blogdesk works OK with the new blog, I can upload and get ENGLISH post with the new blog by blogdesk.

BUT, I failed when my post is written in Chinese (UTF-8), the error message was

An error occured while uploading the post. Error transfering the post to the server. Errorcode: -32700
parse error. not well formed

Appreciated if you can help me to resolved this problem, as I like the GUI of blogdesk very much.

By: Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:21:46 +0000

Another error message with a blog which contains Chinese UTF-8 category

Error reading posts from server.
XML Parsing Error: Expecting ” found ” at character 843

By: Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:20:33 +0000

The errors messages of getting published posts was:

Error reading posts from server.
XML Parsing Error: Expecting
‘< /namassword ‘ found ” at character 21483

By: Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:16:26 +0000

Another Error with a blog which contains Chinese category names

Error reading posts from server.
XML Parsing Error: Expecting ” found ” at character 843

By: Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:26:44 +0000

Thanks for your concern!

I have activeated the XML-RPC checkbox, however,
the blog-ID and FTP upload function are tested OK when setup a BLOG account.

The errors messages of getting published posts was:

Error reading posts from server.
XML Parsing Error: Expecting
‘ ” at character 21483

The errors messages of uploading posts was:

An error occured while uploading the post. Error transfering the post to the server. Errorcode: -32700
parse error. not well formed

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:22:24 +0000

Patrick, it’s just a gues, but… You have to enable XML-RPC publishing on your blog first. Go to Settings->Writing, scroll down to the section “Remote Publishing”, and tick the “XML-RPC” checkbox, then try again.

By: Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:11:36 +0000

I have spent nearly two hours with BlogDesk, but still got no luck in uploading a post to my server on Internet or WAMPserver on my PC … :<