Windows Calendar and Google Calendar Are Working Fine With iCalendar(s)
23 January 2007 in Code-ing & Root | Comments enabled
With Windows Vista, you will now get a — quite nice — calendar program called Windows Calendar. It looks a lot like Apples iCal.app and probably has gotten a nice amount of inspiration from Apple once again, but that is beside the point. I tested my iCalendar and vCalendar generator that I use in Dingo, and found a bug in Windows Calendar. It seems that Windows Calendar doesn’t parse the characters correctly, and in the attached screenshot you can see that there are boxy looking characters where the character “ä” should be.
Not only that, Windows Calendar only supports iCalendar, no vCalendar. I suppose that it is a good thing going from vCalendar version 1.0 to 2.0 (aka. iCalendar).
I also tried out Google Calendar’s iCalendar support and it seems like they’ve finally fixed a bug in their iCalendar parser. I could upload a single iCalendar file with all my course “appointments” to Google Calendar and it inserted every single one, no buts about it. The Google Calendar team are worthy of an applaude for fixing it in a year (which is the time since I last tried it). 
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