vcard-implementations

vCard implementations

In the development of hCard and proxies like X2V, we have discovered various behaviors and quirks of vCard implementations. See also the vcard-errata.

Contributors

• Tantek Çelik
• Brian Suda

Products

Microsoft Outlook

version? platform?

URL handling

URL without non-standard TYPE param seems to be ignored.

ADR handling

Appears to not support the post-office-box sub-property of ADR.

Windows Address Book (WAB)

Version 6.00.X Win98 and Win XP Pro

vCard ENCODING

UTF-8 encoded vCard import prompts error as unrecognised vCard format. US ASCII 20127 encoded vCard successfully imported

ADR

If you do NOT specify TYPE=HOME,WORK,... then no address information is imported

TEL

If you do NOT specify TYPE=HOME,WORK,... then no address information is imported

PHOTO

Does not support Images

NOTE

According to the example in the RFC spec, all commas should be escaped, but WAB does not Un-escape them, leaving \, in the notes field.

Apple Address Book

On both OSX.3 and OSX.4

organization vs. individual

For organization contact info, sets the FN and ORG to the name of the organization and N to empty.

Also treats imported vCards like that as organization contact info cards visibly in the UI.

geo (lack of support)

is ignored when you try to import a vcard that contains GEO information. it is only saved as NOTE

adr (behaviour)

if you do NOT specify which type of address information it is (like HOME or WORK) it is assumed to be a WORK address

Evolution

On Linux.

geo (lack of support)

• ichigo, Frederic to fill in details