Alex Martelli wrote: > R Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... >> alias Linus_Torvalds Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> To me this was a natural task for Perl. Turns out however, there's a >> catch. Apple exports the file in UTF-16 to ensure anyone with Chinese >> characters in >> their addressbook gets a legitimate Vcard file. And of course Perl >> somewhat >> chokes on UTF. > > Sure, Python and Perl (and Ruby) should be equally suitable for the > task, so, if Python appears more suitable by having built-in unicode > capabilities, go for it. I'm a bit uncertain about the UTF-16 export > though; I know some applications do use it (e.g., Microsoft Entourage), > but I thought Apple's Address Book didn't, and, having just tried a > VCard export from mine, it looks quite ASCII to me. Maybe you've set > some kind of preference, or...? > > > Alex
I did the same thing. Apple's clever. If your addressbook doesn't have any higher characters, ie nothing but ASCII, it will export your addressbook in ASCII. But if you have anything else (in my case, Spanish, French, and Italian) it goes for UTF16. I first thought it was UTF8 but realized since Apple supports all sorts of Asian languages really well they need UTF16 to deal with it, and importing the exported file into Jedit using UTF16 encoding confirmed that's what it is. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
