This is required as a plus sign (e.g. +49 for germany) will cause hexification in the link helper. contrib/lisp/org-contacts.el: unhexify tel link TINYCHANGE
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ to do our best."
(setq phones-list (org-contacts-remove-ignored-property-values ignore-list (org-contacts-split-property tel)))
(setq result "")
(while phones-list
- (setq result (concat result "TEL:" (org-contacts-strip-link (car phones-list)) "\n"))
+ (setq result (concat result "TEL:" (org-link-unescape (org-contacts-strip-link (car phones-list))) "\n"))
(setq phones-list (cdr phones-list)))
result))
(when bday