On 7/11/2002 12:49:25 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.) That's a very US-centric fix. It will not work if you have any accented or other non-ASCII characters. Dan -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
