Bug 231004

Summary: vcard embedded photos: Option to use "ENCODING=BASE64" instead of "ENCODING=b"
Product: [Applications] kaddressbook Reporter: wuselwu <einmaladresse_2>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: tokoe
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description wuselwu 2010-03-16 18:49:07 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.4.1)
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

Currently Kaddressbook saves vcards with embedded photos with the following line:
PHOTO;ENCODING=b;TYPE=image/jpeg...

For years now I've tried to sync such vcards with my mobile phones (Nokia, Symbian) and always got errors with this setting.

Now I found out that you can synonymous use the following line:
PHOTO;ENCODING=BASE64;TYPE=image/jpeg...
After changing this line manually in all my contacts, my phone finally accepts the vcards with embedded photos!

It would be great to have an option for that in the export function.
Comment 1 wuselwu 2010-03-16 20:10:58 UTC 
Another workaround for broken vcard handys of some Symbian mobile phones (e.g. my Nokia E51): If the embedded picture isn't the last entry in the vcard file, all following entries are discarded by this phone. Maybe Kaddressbook could have a legacy/workaround option in its export functionality in order to fix this problem, and the one described in my first post?

BTW, I'm talking  about exporting as vcard 2.1, as vcard 3.0 also has problems with German umlauts in my phone.
Comment 2 Tobias Koenig 2010-03-16 20:18:26 UTC 
Hej Lars,

I don't want to discourage you but honestly I don't feel like implementing
lots of hacks into KAddressBook just to work around broken hardware of
phone vendors...
This should be done by real synchronization software which knows the bugs of
the device to synchronize with and can adopt the data format according.

Ciao,
Tobias