At 07:30 PM 5/30/2005, you wrote:
The vCard specification apparently supports escaping special characters
(commas, semicolons) with a backslash, but the Address Book app doesn't
seem to handle this properly. Is there a way to coax it into doing things
correctly? If so, what am I missing? Thanks in advance.
I just sent a vCard with a name that had an embedded semicolon from my Treo
650 to my desktop email account using Versamail, and when I inspect the
vCard file, I see:
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
X-PALM:4.0
N:Test\; One;
TEL;PREF;WORK;VOICE:800-XXX-XXXX
UID:2764164
END:VCARD
Here, the device is just using a backslash to escape the semicolon. When I
sent that vCard back to the device, it accepted it without any problem. I
did notice that the vCard handler in Versamail stripped out the semicolon,
while the handler in the Contacts application handled it correctly and
included it in the new entry. The handler in the Address Book application
on my Tungsten C also handled the escaped semicolon correctly.
-- Ben Combee, Senior Software Engineer, palmOne, Inc.
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