Encoding newlines in iCal files

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to encode newlines in the DESCRIPTION part of an iCal file in such a way that they will import properly into Outlook, Google Calendar and the A

Answer 1

The comment with the link to the RFC from Matthew Bucket above in the original post helped me. Quoting from there:

A BACKSLASH character in a "TEXT" property value MUST be escaped with another BACKSLASH character

So, I did a

$description = str_replace("\r\n", "\\n", $description);

and it worked