Re: [VCARDDAV] Issue in vcardrev-11 with Line Delimiting and Folding?

[Markus Lorenz <[e-mail]>]

Am 30.05.2010 09:38, schrieb Andrew McMillan:
> On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 02:06 +0200, Markus Lorenz wrote:
>> Hey again,
>>
>> section "3.1. Line Delimiting and Folding" says:
>>
>>    A logical line MAY be continued on the next physical line anywhere
>>    between two characters by inserting a CRLF immediately followed by a
>>    single white space character (space, ASCII decimal 32, or horizontal
>>    tab, ASCII decimal 9).
>>
>> It clearly states that the CRLF is followed by only a single white space
>> character. The example however uses _two_ spaces, at least in the
>> text-version in line 329
>> (http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-vcarddav-vcardrev-11.txt):
>>
>>    For example the line:
>>
>>      DESCRIPTION:This is a long description that exists on a long line.
>>
>>    can be represented as:
>>
>>      DESCRIPTION:This is a long description
>>        that exists on a long line.
>>
>> Maybe in the non-text version it has been a tab!?
> 
> Hi Markus,
> 
> It's wrapped before the existing space, so that (making spaces visible
> as ^):
> 
> DESCRIPTION:This^is^a^long^description^that^exists^on^a^long^line.
> 
> has now become:
> 
> DESCRIPTION:This^is^a^long^description
> ^^that^exists^on^a^long^line.
> 
> So in the transformation only a line break, and a space have been added
> - the second space already existed.

Andrew, you're totally right. Thanks!