1585488 - wrong address book vcard export format

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[fortuna]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/69.0

Steps to reproduce:

Tools / Address Book
Select one Address Book
Tools / Export... as vCard

Actual results:

Personal Address Book.vcf is created but there are several issues with its format:

1. tags are lower case
2. name and full name tags with special characters are exported in quoted-printable
3. comma separated telephone numbers stay that way
4. notes with new lines are correctly converted to quoted-printable but they still cover more than one line
5. only one e-mail address makes it to the vcard file, the others are discarded

These problems cause the exported vCard file to be rejected by e.g. the android contacts app.

Expected results:

1. tags should be upper case
2. name and full name tags with special characters should be exported in e.g. UTF8
3. comma separated telephone numbers should be expanded to one per line
4. notes with new lines should go into the same line
5. all e-mail addresses should be exported, one per EMAIL;INTERNET line

The exported vCard file should have the right format so that it can be imported into e.g. the android contacts app.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Something to keep in mind for the planned address book rewrite that we have planned.

Comment 2

[Vlad Lucaci, Thunderbird QA (:vlucaci)]

Hello,

I have tried to reproduce this issue with macOS 14, Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24 on 135.0a1(20241210105041) and could not reproduce it anymore.

All the conditions from the Description's Expected are met in the vCard file.