Re: vCard3.0 and vCal2.0

[Chris Page <page@xxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 08:44  AM, Bill Kearney wrote:

> Great, so it's another case of being so flexible as to be way too 
> ambiguous?

No, it's a question of being outside the scope of the standard, 
apparently. The vCard 2 definition only describes a sort of 
abstract stream of data. It doesn't say anything explicit about any 
particular file format. As it happens, most people just write vCard 
text into a file using ASCII for the tags and give it a "vcf" 
extension (and unfortunately many omit the encoding information for 
non-ASCII values, leaving it up to coincidence or heuristics to 
interpret the data correctly), but this is not defined in the 
standard. vCard 3 still makes no attempt to define a file format, 
although it does provide a concrete definition of how to place a 
vCard in a MIME wrapper, which is clearly the primary goal of that 
standard.

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Chris Page - Mac OS Lead, Palm Desktop - Palm, Inc.