Re: [VCARDDAV] Clarification of property value data type "component"?

Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> Fri, 12 October 2012 17:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] Clarification of property value data type "component"?
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Le 2012-10-12 11:42, Stefan Ganzer a écrit :
> I am wondering if the property value data type "component" should not be
> defined analogous to "text", i.e.
>
> 	COMPONENT-CHAR = "\\" / "\," / "\;" / "\n" / WSP / NON-ASCII
>                 / %x21-2B / %x2D-3A / %x3C-5B / %x5D-7E
> 	   ; Backslashes, commas, semicolons, and newlines must be encoded.
>
> 	component = *COMPONENT-CHAR

Wow, this is a ridiculous bug. I am amazed that it has not been noticed 
before.

Please file an errata at http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php.

Thanks,
Simon
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