Importing ics Events with Comma in SUMMARY/DESCRIPTION fields about gcalcli HOT 3 CLOSED

This is due to how vobject parses the file and not gcalcli itself. vobject uses a very strict interpretation of the iCalendar standard. The standard says a comma in a TEXT value (such as DESCRIPTION or SUMMARY) must be escaped since the comma has special meaning in the iCalendar format. Some libraries, such as icalendar, treat commas in single value fields as just a normal comma since the field can not or should not contain multiple values. This is not, to my understanding, inline with standard, but more of a way of accommodating (somewhat) common implementations of the standard.

A number of services send ICS files that are "broken" in this respect. WebEx is my personal pain point.

That said. I am working on a branch that uses icalendar instead of vobject.

Note: Edited to include a lot more information and links in case someone thinks I'm up the wrong tree

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Updated my comment below, it has more information now and links. Apparently editing a comment does not use Markdown...

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Ah! Thanks, that explains it. I've contacted SBB.ch (the guys from whom I get those SBBVerbindung.ics file and asked them to correct their format.

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