549618 - ^M at the end of ics export forbids iCal import

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Calendar :: Import and Export, defect)

Description

[Regis Marco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: 1.0b2pre (latest-comm-1.9.1/macosx-xpi)

Import ics fails in iCal, error message: "This calendar file is unreadable. No events have been added to your iCal calendar."

Solution: 
Remove ^M in the ics file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Thunderbird, go to Menu Event& Tasks -> Export
2. Select calendar
3. Type file name + Select ics format
4. in iCal Menu File->Import
5. Select: Import an iCal file
6. Choose the file created above + Click Import

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

The ^M at the end of the line is a windows newline character. This is totally valid per rfc5545. Maybe some other aspect of it is broken. Please try validating the file at:

http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/