Re: Chinese names, and a few other questions

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx>]

At 9:41 PM -0700 8/13/97, Steven Fox wrote:
>1. Is there a recommended way to handle Chinese names (using Chinese
>characters) in a vCard? Chinese names are typically two to four, usually
>three, characters long. The family name is the first character, the rest of
>the name follows. Not regarding the encoding and charset issues, I believe
>we simply need to use "N:a;b;c". We haven't found any problems actually, I'm
>just wondering if this issue has been dealt with before.

This appears to be correct from the spec.

>2. Do we need to join IMC or do we need any special permission to use the
>official vCard logo in our application? Actually I'm not sure if there even
>is an 'official' logo or not.

No membership is needed, and we encourage all vCard-compliant programs to
use the logo. A GIF of the logo can be found on the Web site.

>3. We are primarily interested in supporting Microsoft's Windows Address
>Book, but we'll probably also have to support Netscape Address Book too.
>Problem is they seem to have been built using conflicting specs. In
>particular, the order of the ADR: fields are handled differently between the
>two, neither one seems to stick to the official 2.1 spec.

Responses from Microsoft or Netscape on this list would be greatly
appreciated. :-)

>Also, Netscape
>seems to be really stupid and accepts only the last ADR: and EMAIL: line,
>rather than looking for PREF; or HOME; or WORK;. Anyone else aware of this?

Michelle of Netscape? Any comment?

>I'm also wondering if there is any documentation on the extended fields both
>Netscape and Microsoft use. We would like to use the Nickname field, for
>example, but have been unable to figure out how to do it.

Anyone who is using extended ("X-") fields are welcome to post them here so
that people can discuss them.

--Paul E. Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium