Address book: Find and replace characters?

Hi all,
I just imported VCF file from Outlook to Address book. I am in Iceland and the Icelandic characters came wrong. Is there any way to batch find and replace characters in Address book? That is in individual cards.
Thanks,
Hilmar

I believe the only way would be to write an AppleScript.

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