iCalendar Import fails - but open/drag and drop works

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Minties - 13 Jan 2006 15:56 GMT

I receive the following message when trying to import a .ics file that we
generate on our intranet.

vCalendar/iCalendar Import failed. The input file may be corrupt. The
function cannot be performed because the message has been changed.

But when Opening or drag and drop, it opens perfectly and can be saved.

Example .ics file is shown below
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//GSM Association//NONSGML iCalendar file//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20051212T090000
DTEND:20051212T120000
DTSTAMP:20060113T154422Z
DESCRIPTION:Meeting Details:
    Meeting in Dublin........ Test

Reply By Date:
    09-Dec-2005

Contact Details:
    Organizer:     R. Doyle
    Company:     GSMA
    Address:     Deansgrange
            Dublin

Note:
    Unless otherwise stated, the times shown are local to the following
location: Dublin

LOCATION:Dublin
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Test Meeting
CATEGORIES:Business
ORGANIZER: CN=R. Doyle:MAILTO:rdoyle@gsm.org
CONTACT: R. Doyle,
UID:20060113T154422Z@infocentre.gsm.org
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

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Minties - 13 Jan 2006 16:01 GMT

When I paste the code back into a .ics file (original is from Unix and
doesn't have newlines) I get the complaint about lunar versus gregorian
calendar. I do not have an alternate calendar enabled at all and this is not
a recurring appointment, so this suggestion from Microsoft is not overly
useful.

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Pazi - 12 Apr 2006 17:22 GMT

this error (lunar vs. gregorian) appears when the file is saved not in
correct format of UTF-8 (e.g. notepad puts some weird chars on the beginning
of the file - visible in hexa).
if you do not have to use national characters, save the file with ANSI
encoding or use editor able to save UTF-8 correctly.

Minties píše:

> When I paste the code back into a .ics file (original is from Unix and
> doesn't have newlines) I get the complaint about lunar versus gregorian
> calendar. I do not have an alternate calendar enabled at all and this is not
> a recurring appointment, so this suggestion from Microsoft is not overly
> useful.

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