Went down that path too, by adding:
Mailto:?Content-type:text/html&body=mailbody
That did nothing to help.
I also tried:
<A lang="jp" href="mailto:sameoldstuff";>
No amount of google-searching has offered any other tips either. A
frustrating kind of problem.
Cheers,
Sue
On 3/11/04 9:20 PM, "Richard O. Hammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Susan Henshaw wrote:
>> The Japanese characters are in the body of the mail, not in the email
>> address.
>
> Yes. Sorry I didn't pick that up at first. I've got another link, to
> a document which seems relevant as I understand your problem now.
> "The mailto URL scheme" <http://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2368.txt>
>
> From scanning that RFC it is not clear to me that you can use
> Japanese characters, even if encoded, in that place.
>
> But if you can I guess this problem would come up: You are creating a
> generic, very simple email message, so probably the programs which
> handle it assume you are working with the default character set, which
> would be ASCII or something like it. If you create a message in which
> the body has a different character set then you have to specify that
> charset in the headers of the email message, so the mail client knows
> how to decode the characters, and you have not done that, although
> maybe you could by using the mailto protocol to set a Content-type
> heading.
>
> Rich Hammer
>
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