Re: .ics export violates RFC2445

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: .ics export violates RFC2445
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:07:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2DE7990C-2666-430E-91F5-B34C4A35699D@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071107205621.GT13544@atlantic.linksys.moosehall>

fixed, thanks

- Carsten

On  7Nov2007, at 9:56 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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