MacOS X

> If you have an OS X decoder for vCard, please let me know. I can't get
> the standard library to compile on 10.2.x
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 12:16 AM, Generation NeXT wrote:
>
>>
>>  I was reading through the spec, and I was not exactly
>>  clear as to how syntactily I could specify UTF-16BE,
>>  UTF-16LE, UTF-8, etc.
>>
>>  I noticed that Apple's OSX mail program saves Japanese
>>  contacts into UTF16 format when it is dragged to the
>>  desktop.  I looked into the file and found that the
>>  exported VCF card doesn't specify the encoding
>>  anywhere.  I am guessing that the mail program just
>>  checks the BOM (Byte Order Marker) to determine if (1)
>>  it is UTF-16, and (2) if it's LE (Little Endian) or BE
>>  (Big Endian), but I don't know for sure.
>>
>>  I'm going to see if I can get a Japanese Windows up to
>>  see what they do.
>>
>>  The purpose behind this scheme is to create a library
>>  that will support CJK contacts in UNICODE with support
>>  for VCF.  I'm doing this as a personal project, but
>>  then who knows this might be useful to others.  The
>>  library should work it already existing
>>  implementations, despite how flawed they may be.
>>
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