Re: [VCARDDAV] Questions about text handling in vCard 4.0 (rev 11)

[Simon Perreault <[e-mail]>]

On 2010-07-04 23:49, Daisuke Miyakawa wrote:
> - how a receiver accept string with backslash which is not determined in
> the spec (e.g. How "\t\h\i\s\ \i\s\ \a\ \t\e\s\t\n" should be decoded if
> the receiver happened to see it?)

This means that the sender is buggy and is generating output with
undefined meaning. Whether and how the receiver could try to recover
from this output is also undefined.

> - how to handle invisible/control characters valid in Unicode (e.g. tab,
> full-width space used in Japanese, etc.) It can be held as is, but I
> think it might be better to encode it to something like \xXXXX only when
> it is not readable enough.

Disagree. All characters must be left as is except for the ones that
must be escaped.

> - How to handle ',', '\,', ';', and '\;' in X- properties (e.g.
> "X-EXTRA-SORT-STRING:This,is\, a\;test;\, isn't\;it?"). What to do when
> some sender wanted to use splitter (',' or ';') in vCard 4.0.

The rule for comma, backslash, and newline are global and apply
everywhere (see section 3.3). However, the rule for semicolon only
applies to some properties which use the semicolon as separator. It is
up to the people defining a particular X- property to decide whether
they want to use the semicolon as separator.

Simon
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