Re: [VCARDDAV] ORG syntax issue?

Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> Fri, 23 April 2010 00:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] ORG syntax issue?
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On 04/22/2010 07:35 PM, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> Well the trouble is 2426 used the same example and I have seen vcard
> generators produce "\," in ORG too. So do we care about backwards
> compatibility for this property syntax?

If we make "\," special in ORG, we need to make it special everywhere
else. And this will break backward compatibility elsewhere.

Or we can just see this as a bug fix.

Simon
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