ValueError: string argument should contain only ASCII characters

Hi

I just tried to convert the vcf created with MyPhoneExplorer to version 3. Unfortunately it does not work:

python3 vcard2to3.py vcard2.vcf Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pi/kontakte_tmp/vcard2to3/vcard2to3.py", line 250, in <module> main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/home/pi/kontakte_tmp/vcard2to3/vcard2to3.py", line 237, in main line = decoder.decode(line) File "/home/pi/kontakte_tmp/vcard2to3/vcard2to3.py", line 115, in decode decoded_line = quopri.decodestring(line).decode(self.encoding) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/quopri.py", line 162, in decodestring return a2b_qp(s, header=header) ValueError: string argument should contain only ASCII characters

Any idea how to solve this? Thanks! BR, Hugo

[jowave]

Thanks for the feedback and the sample file. Your file contains öüß in the quoted printable data (e.g. line 88). These are not valid characters, since in quoted printable representation only 7-bit ascii characters are allowed and all others are encoded with = followed by two hex digits. Additionally in line 188 is an invalid hex sequence =C3=9=C3=9FF, guessing this should be =C3=9F which is ß in utf-8.

I will add an error message to the script to help identifying the culprit line(s).

After correcting the errors the file can be converted successfully. vcard2qp.corrected.txt

(Note: There is one more possible source of error, since my script ignores the CHARSET=UTF-8 in quoted printable lines and instead uses always the input encoding, which can be given as parameter. For your file this is not a problem though.)

[wurzelbutz]

thank you!