Re: Thunderbird

[Joel Rees]

On 2004.9.24, at 11:55 AM, wren argetlahm wrote:
--- Chris Devers wrote:
--- Joel Rees wrote:
I don't know about .vcf, but .csv is fairly easy
to just look at with
a text editor (formatting off, of course).
Yeah, they're both just text and (pretty) easily
readable. The problem comes in that I don't want to
stop using AddressBook and so I'm looking for a
"maintainable" solution, where I can just hit a couple
buttons or run a script rather than needing to
manually enter anything.
That's part of the reason i've been looking at FB's
import function and Mac::Glue. I don't know for sure,
but I'm thinking that FB doesn't offer any sort of
scripting API (ala Mac::Glue or commandline commands)
that'd let me enter the data programmatically if the
Import function doesn't work. I'd love to be disproven
however.
Incidentally, the .vcf file generated by AB looks akin
to your example but with a space between every
charecter and two newlines instead of one. Is that
normal, or might that be part of the reason that
Firebird is having difficulty reading it?
I would guess that would be the entire reason. Use the file open menu 
item in Text Edit and try loading the .vcf file generated by Address 
Book as a Unicode UTF-16 file. (You may need to customize the encoding 
list.)

If you just double click or drag-and-drop, it will use the default 
encoding, which is probably UTF-8.