After some unpleasantness with Yahoo mail blocking mail to friends addressed in the BCC field by mistakenly labelling my mail as spam, causing me to have to change the password, I decided to phase out my Yahoo mail account and use Outlook instead for sending out tidbits of interest. So I needed to export my contacts from Yahoo to Outlook.
I followed instructions found on the Internet for transferring contacts Yahoo to Outlook, but Outlook kept saying that the imported CSV file was not in the required format.
So I decided to look at a contact export file from Outlook to see what the difference might be. The first thing I noticed was that it had the Byte Order Mark, U+FEFF, at the beginning.
So I processed the CSV file with this Linux pipeline, the unix2dos is to change NL to CR-NL for good measure:
unix2dos < yahoo_contacts.csv | uconv -f ascii -t utf-8 --add-signature > y.csv
uconv is from the ICU package. After that I imported y.csv with no problems. Success!
I followed instructions found on the Internet for transferring contacts Yahoo to Outlook, but Outlook kept saying that the imported CSV file was not in the required format.
So I decided to look at a contact export file from Outlook to see what the difference might be. The first thing I noticed was that it had the Byte Order Mark, U+FEFF, at the beginning.
So I processed the CSV file with this Linux pipeline, the unix2dos is to change NL to CR-NL for good measure:
unix2dos < yahoo_contacts.csv | uconv -f ascii -t utf-8 --add-signature > y.csv
uconv is from the ICU package. After that I imported y.csv with no problems. Success!
