> Having said this, my org diary file has had the encoding changed > out from under me so that all my UTF-8 characters have been > mangled. I've not quite figured out how this happened or when it > happened between yesterday and today. I cannot reproduce the > problem at the moment. This may be coincidental and have nothing > to do with org-caldav. However, it may be something to do with > using org-caldav in emacs -batch mode and whether files get loaded > in the same way. Still playing with this.
FWIW: here UTF-8 is respected and stays UTF-8, in -batch, too. Detlef