Re: Importing issue within AddressManager

Hi Riccardo,

First of all, thank you for the time spent to fix these issues.

One maybe important think I noted: the French UI is not functioning like the English one.
For example, I can use the menu command "Person > Delete (#d)" in the English UI while the French command "Effacer" is grayed. I guess the French translated UI is outdated.

On 2025-10-28 12:30:52 +0100 Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote:

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> 
> As written yesterday, I hope the birthday issue was fixed.

I built again the Framework and the App from the subversion revision 4072.
I tried again with the French UI and these steps:

(1) a new person created within AddressManager
(2) Then this person exported to a vcard by AddressManager itself
(3) Imported as a modified new person (alias name -bis).
(4) Then exported again.
(5) Imported again (alias name -ter)
(6) Exported again

What I noted :

Step (2) - first export
The 'bday' date format (that was shown as 'dd/mm/yyyy' as expected in the French format) in AddressManager became 'yyyy-dd-mm' in the exported vcard. See below:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
X-GENERATOR:Addresses for GNUstep pre-1.0
N:Cardona;Patrick;;;
BDAY:1962-09-07
TEL;WORK;VOICE;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkPhone;X-GNUSTEPID=1;1:0605040302
TEL;HOME;VOICE;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=HomePhone;X-GNUSTEPID=2;2:0203040506
ADR;HOME;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=HomeAddr;X-GNUSTEPID=1;1:BP 34;LE POLE;RUE DU POLE;POLE;Hérault;34000;FRANCE
ADR;WORK;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkAddr;X-GNUSTEPID=2;2:;Rue de des Abeilles;Lycée Pasteur;Utopia;;;France
URL:https://patrick.cardona.example.fr
EMAIL;INTERNET;WORK;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkEmail;X-GNUSTEPID=1;1:[email protected]
EMAIL;INTERNET;HOME;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=HomeEmail;X-GNUSTEPID=2;2:[email protected]
NOTE:Une note avec des caractères accentués.
END:VCARD

Step (3) - The modified vcard before reimport as alias BIS

N:Cardona-BIS;Patrick;;;

In AddressManager, after import, the BDAY date became:
06/09/1962
The 'home' tag became 'work' in each related case.

Step (4)
Exported as:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
X-GENERATOR:Addresses for GNUstep pre-1.0
N:Cardona-BIS;Patrick;;;
BDAY:1962-06-09
TEL;WORK;VOICE;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkPhone;X-GNUSTEPID=1;1:0605040302
TEL;WORK;VOICE;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkPhone;X-GNUSTEPID=2;2:0203040506
ADR;WORK;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkAddr;X-GNUSTEPID=1;1:BP 34;LE POLE;RUE DU POLE;POLE;Hérault;34000;FRANCE
ADR;WORK;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkAddr;X-GNUSTEPID=2;2:;Rue de des Abeilles;Lycée Pasteur;Utopia;;;France
URL:https://patrick.cardona.example.fr
EMAIL;INTERNET;WORK;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkEmail;X-GNUSTEPID=1;1:[email protected]
EMAIL;INTERNET;WORK;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkEmail;X-GNUSTEPID=2;2:[email protected]
NOTE:Une note avec des caractères accentués.
END:VCARD

Step (5) - Name alias is TER

Vcard before import:
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
X-GENERATOR:Addresses for GNUstep pre-1.0
N:Cardona-TER;Patrick;;;
BDAY:1962-06-09
TEL;WORK;VOICE;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkPhone;X-GNUSTEPID=1;1:0605040302
TEL;WORK;VOICE;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkPhone;X-GNUSTEPID=2;2:0203040506
ADR;WORK;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkAddr;X-GNUSTEPID=1;1:BP 34;LE POLE;RUE DU POLE;POLE;Hérault;34000;FRANCE
ADR;WORK;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkAddr;X-GNUSTEPID=2;2:;Rue de des Abeilles;Lycée Pasteur;Utopia;;;France
URL:https://patrick.cardona.example.fr
EMAIL;INTERNET;WORK;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkEmail;X-GNUSTEPID=1;1:[email protected]
EMAIL;INTERNET;WORK;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkEmail;X-GNUSTEPID=2;2:[email protected]
NOTE:Une note avec des caractères accentués.
END:VCARD

In AddressManager:
- The date became: 08/06/1962

Step (6) - Last export:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
X-GENERATOR:Addresses for GNUstep pre-1.0
N:Cardona-TER;Patrick;;;
BDAY:1962-08-06
TEL;WORK;VOICE;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkPhone;X-GNUSTEPID=1;1:0605040302
TEL;WORK;VOICE;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkPhone;X-GNUSTEPID=2;2:0203040506
ADR;WORK;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkAddr;X-GNUSTEPID=1;1:BP 34;LE POLE;RUE DU POLE;POLE;Hérault;34000;FRANCE
ADR;WORK;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkAddr;X-GNUSTEPID=2;2:;Rue de des Abeilles;Lycée Pasteur;Utopia;;;France
URL:https://patrick.cardona.example.fr
EMAIL;INTERNET;WORK;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkEmail;X-GNUSTEPID=1;1:[email protected]
EMAIL;INTERNET;WORK;X-GNUSTEPLABEL=WorkEmail;X-GNUSTEPID=2;2:[email protected]
NOTE:Une note avec des caractères accentués.
END:VCARD


> Did you notice any other issues in email, phones, addresses or Notes?

See above the 'home' tag that became 'work' in step 3.

> 
> I did some tests with an old file and a more recent VCF file, both generated 
> by Addresses on Mac. So not a broad format test.
> I noticed the following:
> First, Phone/Email/Addresses were not classified correctly: they resulted 
> always of type "Work". While there is a lot of code there to handle that, I 
> believe it could never have worked - at least on the Apple format which is 
> coherent with vCard specifications. Types were not correctly extracted and 
> Matched. I extensively rewrote parsing. Could you test on your file?
> You should see Phones assined to Home/Work/Mobile, Address and Email to 
> Home/Work. Of course only if your orifinal file contains specifications to 
> e.g. TEL or EMAIL. I left in some debug logs to spit them out so you can see

It seems the distinction between work and home email is lost after the first export.

> 
> Second, some characters were escaped badly. I rewrote that code totally. It 
> work sin my case but needs to be checked. It works for my test files very 
> well, including images.

I successfully tested with UTF-8 accented characters in the "note" field.
Not tested with an image.

I guess I do not need to test within English UI because you already tested it. 

Patrick

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