Seemingly corrupt iCalendar file cannot be imported to OL2003

[Lars-Erik Aabech]

Hi!

This text (bottom) is saved as an unsigned UTF-8 file (ANSI in notepad), and
then attempted imported to outlook 2003. Outlook says the file "might be
corrupt". WHY?
(A hint: remove encoding=quoted-printable and it works, but this file is
correct according to the spec at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt as far
as I can see..) Please help!

Lars-Erik

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BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
METHODUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:200404130347320016test
SUMMARY;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Invitasjon og greier
ORGANIZER;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE;CN="Lars-Erik Aabech":MAILTO:xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
LOCATION:
ATTENDEE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE;CN="Lars-Erik =C5bekk";ROLE=REQ-PARTICI
PANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ATTENDEE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE;CN="Lars-Erik hjemme";ROLE=REQ-PARTICIP
ANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
DTSTART:20040430T080000Z
DTEND:20040430T090000Z
DTSTAMP:20040413T134732Z
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLEette er en j=E6vla lang invitasjon
og s=E5nt som ikke kommer til =E5 wrappe av seg selv n=E5r den kommer ove
r 75 karakterer i bredden - vi f=E5r se =E5ssen det g=E5r da. Det blir v
el d=E5rlig med =E6=F8=E5 fiksing oxo tenker jeg..
CLASSUBLIC
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I've seen this one before. Although there isn't a KB article on it, it
should be a known issue.

 

[Lars-Erik Aabech]

I couldn't agree more
But I'm sure our customer won't like to hear "We know it's an issue, but we
can't do anything about it"..

You seem to know Outlook Do you have any suggestions on how I should
implement functionality in our app considering the following:
* The app sends invitations to meetings that should be possible to import
and accept or deny in preferably all apps, but mainly outlook
* The invitation format must support international characters
* The mail must be sent per SMTP, it is not possible to use Exchange
functionality.

What is done now is that we generate a .ics file (iCalendar) which is mailed
as an attachment to the users. It works most of the time, but not always.
I've been looking at the one invitation that has erred so far, and the only
issue I could see was a line of more than 76 characters (description), but
then again - other invitations that work has the same. I also tried changing
the file to broken lines, but the same error occured..

I'm really at a loss here.. Appreciate any help anyone have to offer

Lars-Erik