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Re: [Orgmode] .ics export violates RFC2445
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Adam Spiers |
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Re: [Orgmode] .ics export violates RFC2445 |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:16:35 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) |
Carsten Dominik (address@hidden) wrote:
> On Apr 29, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:
> >Carsten Dominik (address@hidden) wrote:
> >>On 7Nov2007, at 9:56 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:
> >>>I use org-export-icalendar-combine-agenda-files to export my
> >>>appointments to an .ics file which I point korganizer at.
> >>>
> >>>I noticed ages ago that if I have an appointment with a comma in,
> >>>e.g.:
> >>>
> >>>** <2007-12-07 Fri 20:00> foo, bar
> >>>
> >>>korganizer always shows it as "bar" rather than "foo, bar". But I
> >>>never got round to investigating whether it was a bug with the
> >>>export or korganizer or something else ... until now :-) I just took a
> >>>quick look at the iCalendar spec, which is RFC2445, and discovered that
> >>>the SUMMARY field is defined as follows
> >>>
> >>> summary = "SUMMARY" summparam ":" text CRLF
> >>>
> >>> -- from http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2445#section-4.8.1.12
> >>>
> >>>And the definition of 'text' in this context explicitly states that
> >>>several characters, including commas, need to be escaped with a
> >>>backslash:
> >>>
> >>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2445#section-4.3.11
> >>>
> >>>Sure enough, when I edited the .ics file and manually escaped the
> >>>comma, korganizer displayed the summary correctly.
> >>
> >>fixed, thanks
> >>
> >>- Carsten
> >
> >This appears to have regressed in some recent version ...
>
> Yes, seems there was still a bug. Fixed now.
Works great, thanks!
> >Also, it would be great if a UID field could be generated for each
> >event, perhaps by checksumming the contents of the event in some way.
> >The RFC says:
> >
> > Conformance: The property MUST be specified in the "VEVENT",
> > "VTODO", "VJOURNAL" or "VFREEBUSY" calendar components.
> >
> > -- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2445#section-4.8.4.7
> >
> >The checksum would ensure that the UID field only changes when the
> >event details check, which would be a first step towards helping
> >synchronisation systems. I'm vaguely suspicious that the lack of UIDs
> >currently confuses Google Calendar too.
>
> A UID may be good. However I think changing the UID when changing the
> entry would be bad, because this would exactly *disable* synchronization.
> To synchronize, you must know which entries to compare, and this is only
> possible with a persistent UID.
Doh - you are right of course.
> I guess we could create one, but this UID would then have to be stored
> in the entry, as a property. Exporting to ical again must then re-use the
> old uid each time.
>
> My org-id.el in the contrib directory allows already to create unique
> identifiers, and it would be easy enough to include the domain to make
> them truely unique, wordwide.
>
> However, right now I am hesitating to force a property drawer onto
> every entry that ever is exported to iCalendar. But as an option, this might
>
> really be good and eventually allow true synchronization.
I understand your hesitation - as an option that sounds perfect. I
forgot to mention before that gcaldaemon
http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/
which is a very nice piece of software indeed, requires the UID field.
If you provided that, then gcaldaemon would give us the solution to at
least unidirectional synchronisation with Google Calendar. I have
experimented with simply scp'ing the generated .ics file to a private
location on my webserver and pointing Google Calendar at that private
URL, but there is no way to force Google Calendar to reload the data
after subsequent scp invocations.
> P.S. Adam, I emailed you twice privately in the last few weeks, but
> did not get any reply.
Hrm :-/ I have issues with private mail currently due to receiving
between 5,000 and 10,000 spam a day (not to mention being busy and
still having yet to perfect GTD ;-). However I just replied to a
couple of recent ones - were they the ones you were referring to?