[Evolution] Bug#395417: evolution-data-server: importing .vcf replaces line breaks with literal \n in NOTE

[Patrick Ohly]

On So, 2006-10-29 at 10:00 +0100, Øystein Gisnås wrote:
> Could you please point me to the particular definitions in the vCard
> 2.1 specification (and sources referred to) where the correct
> behaviour is stated.

Evolution uses vCard 3.0, not 2.1. When it comes to folding there are
relevant differences between the two: in vCard 2.1 folding may only
occur before an existing whitespace whereas in 3.0 a whitespace is
inserted at the point where a line is to be split. For the vCard 3.0
parser that means that it always has to skip the whitespace after a line
break.

Regarding standards, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt says in section
2.6 that "when parsing a content line, folded lines must first be
unfolded according to the unfolding procedure described in [MIME-DIR]".
My interpretation of that is that all <CR><LF><WS> sequences must be
removed before processing the result. The Evolution parser tries to do
that on the fly, but forgot about it in the case of a backslash at the
end of the line.

I'm not sure what you mean with "sources referred to". Do you mean the
E-D-S source file?

>  Also, in your example .vcf file, 7-bit encoding
> was used for the note.

Where did you see something about 7-bit? There is no ENCODING=7-BIT in
the example that I gave. Just to be sure we reference the same one, I
mean: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=72872&action=view

7-bit encoding is not valid in vCard 3.0, ENCODING may only be "b" (base
64), or normal 8 bit characters.

>  Are line-breaks allowed then?

Folding is always allowed, the standard even says that it "should" be
used.

I'm not sure I have really answered your questions, please don't
hesitate to ask for clarifications :-/

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