Bug#413467: kaddressbook: CSV export doesn't handle " in fields

[Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at>]

On Monday 05 March 2007 10:57 +0100, Christian Frommeyer wrote:

> I'm going to use the csv export from kaddressbook for another program. To
> ensure that there will be no problems I tried to export an address which
> had a "-character in a field. As kaddressbook surounds entries by double
> quotes to protect commas inside a double quote in a field shoud be escaped
> somehow. But this won't happen. I'd suggest to escape double quotes with a
> \-character.

The CSV templates used by KAddressBook can make use of different quotation 
characters, unfortunately there does not seem to be a GUI for it.

One of my programs, kabcclient, a commandline access tool for KDE's 
addressbook, uses them as well.
For example, the templates used here
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdereview/kabcclient/doc/examples/letters/
use the pipe character as the delimiter

I am afraid though that the Debian package I have linked to from kabcclient 
webpages (e.g. on kde-apps.org) is way out of date.

Cheers,
Kevin