Contacts interface in Gmail can't save changes to a contact with a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] email address.

On 12/11/06, Daniel Henninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Where does it show up wrong in gmail?  in the "built in google talk"
interface for gmail?  or something else?  (just curious)

Daniel

On Dec 11, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Francois Bousquet wrote:

> Google Talk handle correctly, it's Gmail the problem.
>
> On 12/11/06, Daniel Henninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had a
> discussion with Peter St. Andre about this, and the Wildfire
> folk, and the % notation came from back in old email days and isn't
> really anything that's "standard" in XMPP land.  Instead, we are
> theoretically supposed to be using JID escaping (forget the XEP
> number off the top of my head), which replaces the @ symbol with \40
> instead of %.  I'm moving towards that in the IM Gateway plugin for
> Wildfire, and will likely do the same in PyAIMt at some point.
>
> BTW, as far as I know % shouldn't be considered invalid by google
> talk regardless...  I don't believe that's an illegal character.
>
> Daniel
>
> On Dec 11, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Francois Bousquet wrote:
>
> > I am using a Wildfire + pymsnt setup to have my MSN contacts on my
> > Google Talk Jabber list.
> >
> > Contacts are being added and everything is working fine, however
> > when I try to edit XMPP contacts in Gmail I can't save changes
> > because Gmail consider a [EMAIL PROTECTED] email as
> > invalid because of the "%" character.
> >
> > Do you guys have a workaround for this?
> >
> > I was thinking of changing pymsnt source code to use the "+"
> > character instead of "%" for xmpp Jabber id. Do you think it could
> > be possible?
> >
> > The "+" character is a valide character for Gmail.  It is normally
> > used to create multiple aliases of the same email address.
> >
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