Strange Formatted Name when Writing to Stream about ez-vcard

[mangstadt]

Hi filipe,

is it normal that the comma is preceded by a backslash?

Comma characters are special characters and must be escaped according to the vCard specification.

And why is the FN split into several lines (breaking words in two) starting each line with a space?

That's called folding. Lines that are longer than 75 characters are split into multiple lines.

[filipe-maia]

Thanks for the quick responce.

I've been doing a very simple converter beteween vsf to csv and vice-versa so I could easily edit my phone contacts in the PC in a cell sheet (your lib saved me a lot of time).

My phone has Android 5 and I'm using the stock Google contact manager. After importing the generated contacts to my phone, I've noticed that folding is not a problem, but the backslash characters show up in some of my contacts name (only strange names like the one in the above example have this problem). I found that strange and that was why I oppened this issue, but now I guess that's a Google contact manager problem or maybe I'm doing something wrong.

You can close this issue.

[mangstadt]

It's also possible that you are "double-escaping" a property value somehow. This would cause the backslash to appear in Google Contacts.

FN:thisIsAName\\\, aVeryLongName

I don't know why Google Contacts wouldn't unescape commas in FN properties. Even the example for the FN property in the specifications has an escaped comma in it!