Re: [Evolution] Converting Contacts with ISO-Latin-1 chars

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

Yup it's a quick hack but it worked for me on two different machines.  I
do think the importer could be a little more robust but hey.... this is
pre beta after all.

I'm using the latest evolution snapshot for redhat-6.2 so if you have an
older version try updating.

On 08 Mar 2001 10:51:46 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> OK, thanks Georges, I didn't know the db file contained just indexed vcards
> ... the problem with your solution is that it chops happily accentued
> chars. I did that script which generates a good GnomeCard file:
>
> under the shell (this is on 1 line only):
>
> db_dump185 ~/evolution/local/Contacts/addressbook.db|grep ^$(echo -n
> BEGIN|xxd -p)|xxd -p -r|tr -d \\0 |grep -v ^UID |iconv -f utf8 -t
> iso-8859-1 |tr \\n \\377 |tr '[:cntrl:]' ' '|tr \\377 \\n >adb.gcrd
>
> But when I import it under Evolution, that doesn't work. It seems the Evo
> importer is broken (because GnomeCard shows the accentuated chars
> perfectly).
>
> Does anybody have a better idea ? (perhaps tranforming all lines into
> QUOTED-PRINTABLE, but this seems overkill)
>
> Xav