Open Bug 988514 Opened 11 years ago Updated 3 years ago

address book csv export format of quotes inside fields is wrong

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

17 Branch
x86_64
Linux
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: mozilla_bugzilla, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 Iceweasel/28.0 (Beta/Release) Build ID: 20140319131026 Steps to reproduce: my specific packaged version is 17.0.10-1~deb7u1 Create a contact, first name foo "bar" display name foo "bar" x export csv address book, goto relevant line Actual results: "foo ""bar"""",,"foo ""bar" x""",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, The quoting scheme does not make sense. They aren't escaped or balanced. Expected results: Wikipedia says http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt is a de-facto standard. It requires quotes to escape any quotes within quoted fields, resulting in this expected output. "foo ""bar""",,"foo ""bar"" x",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Severity: normal → S3
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