[turba] Multiline entry patch for Turba 1.2

Adam Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Fri Jun 20 08:13:34 PDT 2003


> This patch fixes an issue with Turba 1.2 where it would insert a Carriage
> Return, Line Feed instead of just Line Feed between the lines of a
> multiline entry (ie. home address)  This causes a problem with Evolution
> where evolution will not display the entry in the address book if there is
> a carriage return in the entry..  But the entries SHOULD only have
> line feeds..

For the attribute postalAddress new lines are supposed to be represented
as "$" characters in the stored data.  And mapped to "\n" when read by
the application, and "\n" turned back into "$" when updated.  I've been
meaning to look into this but unfortunately haven't had the time.  If
you could patch for that behaviour as well it would be much appreciated 
(at least by me).

See http://ldap.akbkhome.com/attribute/homePostalAddress.html 

The syntax 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.41 for these address attributes is
"postal-address = dstring *( "$" dstring )".

I think Turba should implement the standard.  Tracking evolution for
"correct" behaviour is a mistake (IMHO) as the LDAP support in evo is
really really bad.  They will eventually fix evo.






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