[Bug 325524] [NEW] doesn't support tabs instead of spaces

[Marco Costantini]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: 2vcard

When converting from mutt addressbook to vCard file, if in the mutt
addressbook the fields are separated by tabs instead of whitespaces,
then the line is not converted, and the error message "Skipping ill-
formatted line:" is issued.

For example, in the attached file in mutt format, the first line is with
tabs and is not converted, the second line is with whitespaces and is
correctly converted.

This bug may affect also other input formats, and not only mutt (but I
don't know those formats).

About this, see also "Do not allow the distinction between tab and
whitespace to be significant" in "Unix Textual File Format Conventions"
at http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s02.html#id2907428

I'm going to write also to the original author of this program.

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In an other bug of this package, they ask whether to keep or remove this
package in Ubuntu. Most of the users may need this package at most once,
in case that they switch from a mail client to another, however, that
single time this package may be very useful. vCard is also used by
Kontact and Yahoo mail, hence i vote to keep this program.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb  4 23:20:23 2009
Dependencies:
 
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: 2vcard 0.5-2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=it_IT.UTF-8
SourcePackage: 2vcard
Uname: Linux 2.6.26-1-generic x86_64

** Affects: 2vcard (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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