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From: Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
To: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: .ics export violates RFC2445
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 20:56:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071107205621.GT13544@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> (raw)

I use org-export-icalendar-combine-agenda-files to export my
appointments to an .ics file which I point korganizer at.

I noticed ages ago that if I have an appointment with a comma in, e.g.:

** <2007-12-07 Fri 20:00> foo, bar

korganizer always shows it as "bar" rather than "foo, bar".  But I
never got round to investigating whether it was a bug with the export
or korganizer or something else ... until now :-)  I just took a quick
look at the iCalendar spec, which is RFC2445, and discovered that the
SUMMARY field is defined as follows

   summary    = "SUMMARY" summparam ":" text CRLF
 
    -- from http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2445#section-4.8.1.12

And the definition of 'text' in this context explicitly states that
several characters, including commas, need to be escaped with a
backslash:

   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2445#section-4.3.11

Sure enough, when I edited the .ics file and manually escaped the
comma, korganizer displayed the summary correctly.

next             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-07 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-07 20:56 Adam Spiers [this message]
2007-11-10 10:07 ` .ics export violates RFC2445 Carsten Dominik
2008-04-29 14:12   ` Adam Spiers
2008-04-29 15:52     ` Carsten Dominik
2008-04-29 17:16       ` Adam Spiers
2008-05-15  8:33         ` Carsten Dominik
2008-05-27 21:55           ` Adam Spiers
2008-05-27 22:25             ` 1-way syncing with google calendar (was Re: .ics export violates RFC2445) Adam Spiers
2008-05-28 21:02               ` Cezar Halmagean
2008-05-28 21:57                 ` Adam Spiers
2008-05-29 10:32                   ` Tim O'Callaghan
2008-05-29 13:08                     ` Re: 1-way syncing with google calendar David Smith
2008-05-30 20:55                       ` Adam Spiers
2009-03-20 15:18                       ` David Abrahams
2008-04-30 18:38       ` .ics export violates RFC2445 Leo

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