[Vobject] saving unicode vcard

[Anil]

Jeffrey,

Oh, it seems the problem I am having is because I am using
allowQP=True when I read
the vcard back in (as per the bug/email from a few days ago).

If I don't set that kw, it works fine.

Soo, how do I handle this? I had this before:

v = vobject.readComponents(myfile.value, allowQP=True)
for vcard in v:
   ...

What if there are multiple different formats in the file, but if I
have to explicitly specify allowQP,
that'd break.

Do I need to read in the file and see if in the file there is
"quoted-printable", than I should
do allowQP, if not, I wouldn't pass it in.

Couldn't readComponents automatically detect the format of the
component being read?




On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Jeffrey Harris
<jeffrey at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> 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
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