A decade ago I wrote a vCard library for LiveCode: https://git.sr.ht/~soapdog/vObjectLib
It uses CRLF and file://, I never had trouble opening the generated vCards but I haven't tested this in years. On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 01:10, kee nethery via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > On May 31, 2020, at 4:56 PM, Bill Vlahos via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > If I just use URL file to save vCard files I will get different results > on Windows vs Macintosh regarding CRLF. VCard files are text files. > > UTF-8 files. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6350#section-3.1 > > > The vCard standard requires CRLF as the line format regardless of which > platform the data is being written in. > > True https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6350#section-3.2 > > > LiveCode using the URL file command will write the file differently on > Windows compared to Mac or Linux. > > Sure do wish Livecode would let us declare what a “text” file return > character or characters was for writing a file. Same as we do with > itemdelimiters. Something like: > > set linedelimiter to U+000D & U+000A > > > I can build the variable for the vCard and use CRLF instead of RETURN > for line endings. > > > > If I write the file using URL binfile format will it still be a text > file that other programs can read? > > if you give it a .vcf suffix it should work. > > Kee > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- http://www.andregarzia.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
