Bug 310137

I'm not sure if the DAV resource is responsible for this, here goes anyway.
I can reliably reproduce this bug in KDE 4.9.2-3 with the Radicale CalDAV/CardDAV server.

Under some circumstances, if the Notes field of a contact contains non-ascii characters (I assume, I'm writing Greek in it), any non-ascii character in the *whole* contact (not only in the Notes field) will be corrupted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new contact under a DAV resource's contacts folder
2. Fill its notes field with the following string: "αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψωαβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψωαβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψωα" (unquoted of course)
3. Save the contact, and wait for it to be transmitted to the CardDAV server
Actual Results:  
The contact is transmitted corrupted to the server and Akonadi is none the wiser.

Expected Results:  
The contact is transmitted intact to the server.

I've noticed that these contacts when exported from Kaddressbook (or by looking at .local/share/contacts/) tend to break wide characters between lines. They are imported correctly however.

I don't think this is server specific, however a "pip install radicale" should be enough for you to reproduce the bug; the server can be run right after being downloaded without configuration, and using a URL such as "http://localhost:5232/myuser/mycontacts.vcf/".

Feel free to ask me for more details.