RE: bug fix for quoted-printable compound properties

[Dan Wing <dwing@xxxxxxxxx>]

try:

  imc-vcard-request@xxxxxxx
  imc-vcalendar-request@xxxxxxx

If that doesn't work, look around imc.org's website for information
or email Paul Hoffman at the IMC directly and he'll take care of
unsubscribing you.

-d


On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:36 -0500, Aaron Michalove wrote:

> How does one remove themselves from these mailing lists?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephan Jou [mailto:stephanjou@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 10:57 AM
> To: imc-vcard@xxxxxxx; imc-vcalendar@xxxxxxx
> Subject: SDK: bug fix for quoted-printable compound properties
> 
> 
> Hello vCard programmers!
> 
> There were at least two bug reports in the mailing list archives for
> quoted-printable compound properties being incorrectly parsed into a
> single
> property by the Versit SDK.  I ran into the same issue, so for example:
> 
> ADR;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:;;HSBC Building=0A=0D=
> 30 Metcalfe Street, 3rd Floor;Ottawa;ON;K1P 5L4;Canada
> 
> would be incorrectly parsed into a single property:
> STREET=HSBC Building\n30 Metcalfe Street, 3rd Floor;Ottawa;ON;K1P
> 5L4;Canada
> 
> instead of correctly parsing out the multiple ADR fields:
> STREET=HSBC Building\n30 Metcalfe Street, 3rd Floor
> L=Ottawa
> R=ON
> PC=K1P 5L4
> C=Canada
> 
> The fix is simply to add the following case to the switch statement in
> lexGetQuotedPrintable():
> 
> case ';' {
> 	lexPushLookaheadc(';');
> 	goto EndString;
> }
> 
> Anyway, this along with the other bug fixes reported in the mailing list
> archives makes it the third fix I've had to make to this SDK to get it
> to
> work.  Does anyone know if this SDK is being supported or updated at
> all?
> Development on the SDK seems to be quite dead, and it is quite
> frustrating
> as it seems to be the only vCard/vCal source code around.
> 
> Is it worth me putting the fixed source code up somewhere on a web site,
> so
> that others can get it and possibly find other bugs?  Maybe update it
> one
> day to Bison-compliancy/vCard 3.0, etc.?
> 
> 
> StEpHaN!
>