On iOS you would be looking for ABPersonCopyLocalizedPropertyName() on the Mac 
you would be looking for ABCopyLocalizedPropertyOrLabel().

-Richard


On 13/09/2012, at 9:33:06 PM, Erik Stainsby <erik.stain...@roaringsky.ca> wrote:

> I understand that ABAddressBook methods are concerned with ABPerson and 
> ABGroup entities, subclasses of ABRecord.
> However, the ABMultiValue collections are less intuitive. Among these are 
> stored the (potentially) multiple instances of addresses, phone numbers and 
> email addresses.  For each instance of user supplied data, a multiValue 
> object can store - in properties keyed with kABXxxx keys - arbitrary labels: 
> home, work, iPhone, mobile, etc.   The documentation leaves much to be 
> desired, but in particular, I cannot glean how to retrieve a user-supplied 
> string from a given multiValue object.
> 
> Some code: 
> 
> Given some address, stored in an ABMultiValue object, such that:  
> 
> - (void) unwrapMV:(ABMultiValue*)mv atIndex:(int)index {
> 
>       NSString *      _uuid       = [mv identifierAtIndex:index];
>       NSString *      _label      = [mv labelForIdentifier:[mv 
> identifierAtIndex:index]];
>       NSDictionary *  _dict       = [mv valueAtIndex:index];
>                                       // am I the identified primary entry?
>       BOOL            _primary    = ([mv primaryIdentifier] == self.uuid)? 
> YES: NO; 
> 
>       NSLog( @"%@", _label) ;
> }
> 
> produces  _$!<Home>!$_, 
> or one of the other variants of the actual value of the key, not the value it 
> refers to.
> 
> Clearly I am failing to understand where these strings are being stored.
> 
> Erik Stainsby
> erik.stain...@roaringsky.ca
> 
> 
> On 2012-09-13, at 9:04 PM, Jerry Krinock <je...@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 2012 Sep 13, at 19:45, Erik Stainsby <erik.stain...@roaringsky.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> So the AddressBook framework's xxxLabel keys render out as strings encoded 
>>> like so: _$!<Home>!$_, _$!<Work>!$_, _$!<Mobile>!$_   Is there framework 
>>> method I am meant to use with the property keys kABHomeLabel, kABWorkLabel, 
>>> etc, to render a legible text outcome 
>> 
>> Maybe you're looking for -[ABRecord valueForProperty:].  Note that 
>> ABAddressBook methods typically return ABPerson objects, and ABPerson 
>> inherits from ABRecord.
>> 
>> If that doesn't explain it, post some code.
>> 
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