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oh, iOS mangles the encoding when importing Vcard 4.0 files… they look like valid UTF-8… let's check the spec for encoding info

the spec: the charset is UTF-8. there is no way to change this.

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damn it

the fix for iOS: just output VCard 3.0, 4.0 is too advanced
the fix for Outlook: haha fuck you reencode as Latin-1*

*or tell all your users to set their export (sic!) setting to utf-8 because that changes the import to utf-8 too thanks a lot Microsoft

also shoutout to Thunderbird which opened all three versions of said VCard file correctly encoded, I'm sure handling all those weird edge cases wasn't fun

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