Edited sentence: As a result, when the LDIF file is imported into Thunderbird, for example, a text phrase like "John & Jane Doe" comes out in one's address book as "John &amp; Jane Doe".For example, ampersand (&) is encoded as an HTML Extended Character (&amp;) instead of the ampersand character.It should be noted that Yahoo.Mail does not encode certain characters properly when one exports their Yahoo.The only corrective means at the moment is manually editing the address book after an Import.address book in LDIF format