[CalendarServer-users] How to handle comma and newline escaping propely

[Cyrus Daboo]

Hi Gaurav,

--On April 11, 2016 at 11:52:42 AM -0700 Gaurav Jain 
<monkeyfdude at gmail.com> wrote:

> I may have comma in my Event Summary.
>
> For eg. I can have a summary like
>
>
> * "I , am , coming, tomo"*
>
> On receving side, I get back is
>
>
> * "I \, am \, coming\, tomo"*
>
> What need to be do to get
>
> * "I , am , coming, tomo" *on readers client.

iCalendar data uses backslash encoding of certain characters as defined in 
the specification: <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545#section-3.3.11>.

You should use a proper iCalendar library to generate and parse any 
iCalendar data - the library will take care of doing the proper backslash 
encode/decode for you.

If you send data to the server that does not have the right syntax, the 
server may reject it or attempt to fix it (e.g. by adding back slashes) 
depending on how severe the issue is. Thus you should always use a proper 
iCalendar library when interacting with the server.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo