On or near 7/10/02 8:38 PM, Dan Crevier at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > On 7/10/2002 4:16 PM, "Eric Hildum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Today�s Macfixit contained the following: >> >>> Entourage vCard import Mike Bombich writes in with a procedure for importing >>> Entourage vCards (used for contact information) into Apple's Mac OS X >>> AddressBook application. >>>> "After turning on invisible characters in BBEdit, I learned that the reason >>>> that Entourage's vCards do not work with AddressBook is that every other >>>> character is a null character (ASCII character 0). Apparently AddressBook >>>> (and probably any other honest vCard compliant application) cannot >>>> interpret a file interspersed with null characters. After removing the >>>> characters and converting the line endings to DOS format, the file imported >>>> just fine. I then wrote a quick and dirty little AppleScript that parsed >>>> the files to remove these characters." >> >> This sounds to me as if the issue is that Entourage is writing Unicode >> (UTF-16) data that the Apple address book is unable to interpret as it is >> expecting ASCII. Is this the right? > > That�s correct. It would be better if Entourage wrote a Byte-Order-Mark (BOM) > into the file, but it doesn�t... > Someone else at MacFixit has since guessed the Unicode idea, too, and recommends opening the file in Word and saving it as plain text to get rid of the nulls. A pure Microsoft solution, none of this geeky BBEdit stuff. (Of course I love BBEdit, in real life.)
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