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

[Milan Crha]

On Wed, 2025-09-24 at 16:55 +0200, Pete Biggs wrote:
> I feel bad telling users to just live with the oddities and quirks.
> When I see something like that I just swear at it and ignore it
> because I understand the underlying issues; but users don't tend to
> have that background, and to them it's an annoying bug that disrupts
> their life!

	Hi,
the thing is that some things can be ignored and some not, like some
are show stoppers and either the server fixes the problem or the
clients workaround it in some way. The evolution-data-server has such
quirks on various places, for Google servers, for iCloud servers, for
some versions of the Cyrus server, to name the few I can think of from
the top of my head.

It's always a nightmare to maintain such quirks, especially when the
server decides to fix it at some point, maybe distant in the future
from the time when it had been added to the code of the client(s). It's
great they fixed it, but the clients should be updated because,
depending on the problem, "the correction of a corrected data can cause
breakage".

Just saying my opinion. I want to help the users, thus I add the quirks
when it looks like the real faulty app/server cannot be fixed "easily",
thus the evo users can work with it. When it breaks more clients, it's
the best to fix it on the faulty app/server anyway.

	Bye,
	Milan