Re: filtering out Ericsson noise in empty vCard address

Michael Wardle wrote:

>Hi
>
>My Sony Ericsson Z1010 seems to send empty addresses as a series of
>empty address fields (title, company, street, city, state, zip, country)
>separated by semi-colons, rather than as a completely empty string.
>
>When this is imported into Evolution (and presumably other data
>sinks/plugins), this shows up as a contact having an address consisting
>of a number of empty lines with a comma separating the null city from
>the null state+zip instead of a contact having no address.
>
>I raise this here in case somebody is interested in filtering such empty
>addresses, presumably replacing it with an entirely empty HOME address
>field.
>
>Sample vCard follows:
>BEGIN:VCARD
>VERSION:2.1
>N:Test
>FN:Test
>EMAIL;INTERNET;PREF:[email protected]
>TEL;CELL:+61400000000
>ADR;HOME:;;;;;;
>LABEL;HOME;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:=0A=0A, =0A
>X-IRMC-LUID:000000000353
>END:VCARD
>
>  
>
the next version of multisync already filters these fields (evo2 does 
exactly the same stupidity) but doing this in the current version of 
multisync will be very difficult and probably nothing more than a hack.


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