[Vobject] vCard 2.1 behaviour

[martin f krafft]

Hello,

consumer devices that support vCard hardly ever can deal with
versions 3.0 or 4.0, but are limited to 2.1 — it's almost like
programmers at phone manufacturers and other places have access to
a snapshot of the Internet from 1997 and use that as authoritative
reference… :(

Unfortunately, your lovely vobject module does not come with
a vCard2_1 behaviour. That's probably because most of you have
little interest in coding historical stuff.

Yet, given the ubiquity of vCard 2.1, I do wonder whether
a vCard2_1 would make sense…

I had a look at vcard.py and it doesn't look like it'll be that hard
to do. Essentially, starting from a copy of the VCard3_0 class, all
that seems necessary is to change some class variables, provide
encode/decode (since 2.1 uses whack/ancient encoding), and possibly
change the knownChildren attribute.

Have any ventures into this domain already taken place?
Are you interested in a VCard2_1 behaviour?

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