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Importing Entourage vCards: a follow-up

Importing Entourage vCards: a follow-up

CNET staff
Regarding yesterday's item on problems importing Entourage vCards to Address Book, several readers confirmed our initial update that this is a Unicode issue. Here are two additional comments:

"Entourage is writing Unicode (UTF-16) data that the Address Book is unable to interpret as it is expecting ASCII. It would be better if Entourage wrote a Byte-Order-Mark (BOM) into the file, but it doesn't."

"To solve this, you can simply use BBEdit to turn the Unicode file into normal ASCII, as I had to do when I encountered the same problem a couple months ago. Simply uncheck 'unicode' in the popup menu at the top of the editor window and resave the file." [Scott Lahteine]