[Evolution-users] "/:" instead of ":" in Contact Notes

[rsbrux]

On Mon, 2025-09-22 at 11:29 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> 
> > The behavior seems to be client-specific.
> > In 2 different cloud address books (Google Workspace and Infomaniak
> > kSuite) the spurious "/" characters don't appear when I access the
> > addressbooks through a browser, but both Evolution 3.52.3 under
> > Ubuntu
> > and Betterbird 140.3.0 under Windows 10 show the spurious "/"
> > characters before colons.  
> > 
> 
> As Milan asked: is it a slash ("/") or a backslash ("\")?
> 
> > In fact, Betterbird contributes not just
> > one, but two slashes. I suspect that the fault lies in some open-
> > source
> > module common to various client applications. Since I upgraded my
> > iPad
> > Pro to iPadOS 18.7, the iPad's Contacts app also shows one spurious
> > slash before each colon in Contact notes.
> 
> I think it's a great leap of logic to immediately blame "some open-
> source module" especially as I am doubtful that Apple would use OSS
> in
> one of its core apps.  In my experience it is much more likely to be
> some closed-source proprietary application not conforming to
> standards.
> 
> P.
> 
> 
It is indeed a stretch.  
Do you have a better theory for why a similar problem should appear
simultaneously in Evolution, Betterbird and Apple Mail?
AFAIK, neither Evolution nor Betterbird contain any closed-source code.