vCard save file format binfile or file?

[Andre Garzia]

to be honest, I'd use binfile:// when writing...

On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 15:17, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:

> A decade ago I wrote a vCard library for LiveCode:
>
> https://git.sr.ht/~soapdog/vObjectLib
>
> It uses CRLF and file://, I never had trouble opening the generated vCards
> but I haven't tested this in years.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 01:10, kee nethery via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On May 31, 2020, at 4:56 PM, Bill Vlahos via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > If I just use URL file to save vCard files I will get different results
>> on Windows vs Macintosh regarding CRLF. VCard files are text files.
>>
>> UTF-8 files.   https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6350#section-3.1
>>
>> > The vCard standard requires CRLF as the line format regardless of which
>> platform the data is being written in.
>>
>> True    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6350#section-3.2
>>
>> > LiveCode using the URL file command will write the file differently on
>> Windows compared to Mac or Linux.
>>
>> Sure do wish Livecode would let us declare what a “text” file return
>> character or characters was for writing a file. Same as we do with
>> itemdelimiters. Something like:
>>
>> set linedelimiter to U+000D & U+000A
>>
>> > I can build the variable for the vCard and use CRLF instead of RETURN
>> for line endings.
>> >
>> > If I write the file using URL binfile format will it still be a text
>> file that other programs can read?
>>
>> if you give it a .vcf suffix it should work.
>>
>> Kee
>>
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