Details
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Type:
Bug
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Status: Open
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: 4.2.6, 4.4.0
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Fix Version/s: Unscheduled
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Component/s: CiviEvent
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Versioning Impact:Patch (backwards-compatible bug fixes)
Description
When you are including specials characters in an event description like : ", ', à, é... they are translate to HTML entities in the iCal.
For exemple go to:
http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/manage/settings?action=update&reset=1&id=1
Change the description with some specials characters, why not some french 
"Un jour à Paris"
Then check out the description here:
http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/ical?reset=1&list=1
The description is now: "Un jour à\; Paris"
And BTW, why is there a \ before the semi-colon?
Until an official fix, here is mine:
File : administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Event/BAO/Event.php
After line 795 add:
$info['description'] = preg_replace('/\\\\;/', ";", $info['description']);
$info['description'] = html_entity_decode($info['description'], ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML401, 'UTF-8');
I know it is not perfect, but still, it work, except for the double quote, I am still looking for a better solution.
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same as other ical issue. please check rfc and report back. we'll pull this in
If someone is interested, the RFC section related to this issue is here:http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545#section-3.1
That is too theoretical for me, I don't understand it!
I just found a better solution!
File: administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Utils/ICalendar.php
Line 60:
$text = html_entity_decode($text, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML401, 'UTF-8');
And BTW I comment the line:
//$text = str_replace("\"", "DQUOTE", $text);
Because DQUOTE is not a standard for calendar.