Re: [VCARDDAV] New Version Notification for draft-daboo-ical-vcard-parameter-encoding-00.txt (fwd)

[Cyrus Daboo <[e-mail]>]

Hi Simon,

--On July 9, 2012 9:58:37 AM -0400 Simon Perreault 
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>> As discussed a few weeks ago I have written a draft that defines a way
>> for vCard and iCalendar parameter values to be encoded using an escape
>> sequence that allows certain characters, previously forbidden from
>> appearing in a parameter value, to now be included.
>
> One thought: you mentioned that one potential usage would be encoding
> arbitrary IM display names, and I'm thinking that many of those would
> contain asian-style emoticons, and those make abundant use of the ^
> character.
>
> In the list at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons#Eastern
> there are a few that include ^^, but none with ^', ^t, or ^n.
>
> Problem?

Well there are now unicode code points for emoticons (as seen in the link 
you included) so I would hope those get used (because they are prettier) in 
which case they would not be a problem. Also, I think emoticons are used 
more for IM status as opposed to actual display names, and status is not 
something I would expect to see in a vCard. So at this point I don't see a 
problem with this.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo