On Fr, 2011-07-22 at 15:41 +0200, Lukas Zeller wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > On Jul 22, 2011, at 15:00 , Patrick Ohly wrote: > > > I couldn't think of cases where avoiding binary encoding might have a > > negative effect, but you are right, it is not according to spec and it > > makes sense to not change existing behavior. > > Although I guess many clients would bail out when encountering a PHOTO > (non-URI type) with non-B64 content,
Why? Because they (incorrectly) assume that PHOTO must be B64 encoded, without checking the parameters to ensure that it really is? Just wondering. I can imagine that there are such clients. > I can't imagine photo data possibly be ASCII so I admit this cannot > happen. There are pure-ASCII image formats. Okay, not very common in vCards I guess ;-) -- Best Regards, Patrick Ohly The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak on behalf of Intel on this matter. _______________________________________________ os-libsynthesis mailing list [email protected] http://lists.synthesis.ch/mailman/listinfo/os-libsynthesis
