Within some of my Contacts of Evolution, newline characters are displayed randomly and are persistent after deletion, they reappear randomly. Reproducible: Always This is a known bug with Evolution contacts and has not been fixed even as of: gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.10.1 Here's is my official and continuing bug report with Gnome Evolution: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416664 A proposed patch was issued for this bugzilla report but on another bug file here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356176 To date from what i just heard on my bug report, it has yet to be officially applied, but a Debian developer has applied the patch locally to the debian tree for Evolution.
Thank you for report, roger. The bug was fixed upstream. I've backported patch and applied to evolution-data-server-1.10.2-r1. Fixed.
Great! I would have done more, but time only permits me todo so much programming ;-) (Would be great if Gentoo had a 24/7 voting system for volunteers/developers for Gentoo. You have my vote for posting this long overdue puppy. ;-)
Ok. For historical documentation of this bug... I fixed a few more of my contacts acquiring the nagging "\n" character sets within my contacts. You might also want to note I found these character sets, not only within the "Comment" field, but in also fields of the vcard format. To fix: 1) Export the contact(s) to vcard file. (Right click and choose Export.) 2) Open the VCard with GVim and choose "Edit > Find/Replace". 3a) Replace all occurrences of "\n" with spaces: Specify for Find "\\n" and Replace " " (five spaces or just one or two spaces designating places you've had a carriage return). 3b) This time, just find & replace back slashes: Find "\\" and Replace " " (five spaces or just one or two spaces). 4) Save the file and import the vcard back using Evolution > File > Import. I still notice Evolution spawning the following warnings, but can find no back slashes or "\n" character sets anymore: (evolution-2.12:12606): libebook-WARNING **: invalid escape, passing it through (evolution-2.12:12606): libebook-WARNING **: invalid escape, passing it through But so far, I am "\n" free. I'm hoping time will tell what invalid escape characters are embedded and which contacts they're in. I think these "invalid escapes are causing a slight delay displaying the contacts.
