[Vobject] saving unicode vcard

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Anil,

> I am reading some data from a database in UTF8. I convert the data
> into unicode. I want to save it to a vcard file. Should this data be
> written as Unicode or UTF8?
> 
> I am doing something like this now:
> 
>             f = codecs.open(fname, "w", 'utf-8')
>             f.write(j.serialize().decode('utf-8'))
>             f.close()

I really need to tweak this, but right now, serialize *always* encodes 
as utf-8, you don't have any choice in the matter.

Note that the serialize method can take a stream as an argument, in 
which case it will serialize directly to the stream.

So what you're doing above should work, but it'd be simpler to just do:

f = open(fname, "w")
j.serialize(f)

That should put utf-8 encoded data in fname.

Yes, UTF-8 contains escape characters for data that isn't 7-bit ASCII. 
All in all, I'm not sure what's going wrong for you.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey