Re: [evolution-patches] e-d-s portion of addressbook fix for #54528

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 09:20 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 17:22, Chris Toshok wrote:
> > apple's addressbook puts "PHOTO;BASE64:" for its photos in exported
> > vCard 3.0 vcfs.  This is really rather broken.  the encoding is no
> > longer called "BASE64" in vCard 3.0 - it's "b".  Also, you're not
> > supposed to be able to leave off the ENCODING parameter name.  So really
> > this should be "PHOTO;ENCODING=b:"..
> > 
> > anyhow, this patch converts the former to the latter while parsing.
> 
> Will this write the encoding back out as "b"?  And if so, is that
> something we want?

yes, and i think yes.  "be lenient with what you read in, and strict
with what you write out" and all that.

Chris