unicode - Importing Google Contacts in Windows Contacts

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2014-07
  • antonio

    In Windows 7 there is a very simple contact application, Windows Contacts, and I was trying to populate it with contacts from Gmail.

    I exported all of them as a single vCard (.vcf) file from Google and used the import function in Windows Contacts. There are two problems though.

    • First Windows Contacts ask for a confirmation for every single file to import, When there are hundreds of them, this is extremely annoying.

    • Gmail vCard file is in UTF-8 format, which is suitable for non-English charsets. Anyway, Windows Contacts is unable to read these characters properly (e.g. Cyrillic).

    Do you know how is it possible to avoid confirmation and import Unicode characters properly?

    P.S. I have tried also to save and import contacts in CSV, but this is a real no-go, since Windows Contacts asks to remap every Google contact field into its equivalent.

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