What's new in VCS to ICS Calendar Converter 2.0

Nov 26, 2012
  • Added support for multi-todo and multi-event calendar files.
  • Now the version of the application is shown at runtime startup.
  • Added folder Doc/untested_vcs with 55 new vcs files

New in VCS to ICS Calendar Converter 1.75 (Nov 19, 2012)

  • Now BOM is removed when reading files encoded in the following UTF formats: UTF-8 (with and without BOM), UTF_16LE, UTF_16BE, UTF_32LE, UTF_32BE. As specified in Oracle bug 4508058, BOM is not automatically removed for compatibility reasons so it has to be done manually.
  • Added Apache Commons IO 2.4 to remove BOM from UTF encoded files.
  • Added some php example code to decode quoted printable strings and a multi-event Microsoft Works vcs file to Doc folder.

New in VCS to ICS Calendar Converter 1.7 (Nov 7, 2012)

  • Apache Commons Codec updated to version 1.7
  • JavaSE updated to 1.7
  • Now all field names are accepted also when not uppercase. This was done for compatibility with Microsoft Works.
  • Added a test that is run automatically to check whether org.apache.commons.codec.net.QuotedPrintableCodec.decodeQuotedPrintable is working on current operating system. Java may contain a bug where some characters are damaged when using Windows
  • Added file dair.vcs

New in VCS to ICS Calendar Converter 1.63 (Aug 7, 2012)

  • Email can now be specified from command line as an argument to the jar file, with the syntax -email, email or -e. In case no email is specified won't ask any further.

New in VCS to ICS Calendar Converter 1.62 (Aug 7, 2012)

  • Email can now be specified from command line as an argument to the jar file, with the syntax -email youremail

New in VCS to ICS Calendar Converter 1.61 (Jul 20, 2011)

  • Fixed bug that caused multiline entries starting with a single space to be ignored.
  • Added Doc folder with some documentation.
  • Added multiline_with_single_space.vcs to test multiline fields starting with a single space instead of two.

New in VCS to ICS Calendar Converter 1.60 (Jun 27, 2011)

  • Added encoding detection of vcs files (thanks to org.mozilla.universalchardet)
  • Now all ics files are saved as UTF-8 instead of the same encoding of the vcs file.
  • Added vcs files 5, 6 and 7 with different file encodings.
  • Added support for Mozilla Sunbird.

New in VCS to ICS Calendar Converter 1.55 (Jun 20, 2011)

  • Fixed bug that caused DESCRIPTION to be null if the corresponding field didn't exist in vcs file.
  • Added support for fields that are not quoted-printable encoded but multiline.
  • Added vcs files 1, 2, 3 and 4 to test not quoted-printable multiline.

New in VCS to ICS Calendar Converter 1.5 (Jun 14, 2011)

  • Added complete support for UTF-8 quoted-printable encoding (thanks to org.apache.commons commons-codec-1.5 source files) Those files are released under Apache license.
  • Fixed bug that caused ics files to miss END statements
  • Fixed bug that caused ics files to have a blank line at the end (CRLF)
  • Added 'Quoted-printable chars (The Cairo, daily alarm).vcs' file to test deeply utf-8 encoded quoted-printable chars.

New in VCS to ICS Calendar Converter 1.01 (Jun 14, 2011)

  • Added support for STATUS:COMPLETED statement in ToDo files.
  • Added TodoThings.vcs and TodoThings.ics files to test STATUS statement.