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pszego wrote:I misspoke, but you are correct: Address Book does use v3.0, but vcards are v2.1 when synced to (or simply created on) an iPhone, so I kept to the earlier version.

How did you discover this? You're maintaining that when cards are created on the iPhone and synced back to one's Mac, they remain in v.2.1 format? I just checked with an address book entry that was definitely created on the iPhone, and it's in vcard 3.0 format on my Mac.

My point is that it isn't entirely safe to switch the Leopard Address Book to vCard format 2.1: if you have to reimport an entry based on a copy saved in format v.21, you'll lose information in many cases. V.3.0 appears to be much better at preserving anything. Perhaps it might handle encoding automatically as well.

Might it be possible to develop an iPhone format for vCard 3.0?

pszego wrote: As for France being a default, I haven't seen that sort of thing myself (field values being changed). You've probably looked already, but could it be a default setting stored either in Bookends, Address Book, or your iPhone possibly?

I think that this has something to do with Settings > International > Region Format.

In the little playing around that I've done recently, my experience has been that keeping the output of the Bookends references as ver. 2.1 works best, particularly if the fields specified for a given format (e.g., journal, book) are filled - If they're not, a reference may not be imported correctly to Address Book, or it may look odd when imported. I'm not sure why an empty field causes some strangeness in the vcards refs in Bookends; my advice is to import references that are "complete" as far as the fields are concerned.

If anyone has noticed anything systematic with regards to non-importing or odd-looking references, please post it and we'll see what we can do!

Of course, if things are working (or there's other fields you'd like to see) it's always good to hear that, too

P