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

[Xavier Bestel <n0made free fr>]

Well, with my "script" the adress book seems correct, Evo imports it but
misses some chars where there are accentuated letters. Shoudn't be too hard
to fix, I guess.

Xav

Le 2001.03.08 16:25:54 +0100, George Farris a écrit :
> 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