Would be nice if it would be that easy! But the encoding "Über" with "Ü" stops all transfer-flow of the body text just after that encoding; the rest of the mail text remains empty.
The reason is obvious: the ampersand-sign (&) is strictly reserved for the codification of the mailto-string. (See again RFC2368: <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2368.txt>) No, sorry, it remains a PowerMail-bug! As I mentioned before, Apple Mail can handle incoming diacritic signs it without any problem! (Wayne Brissette wrote:) >Well, I learned something today. It's not a FM bug, but nor is it a >PowerMail bug. It's a STANDARDS issue. Check out RFC 2368, it seems that >you must encode the body= part of the mailto: according to the RFC. My >guess is that in the Apple Message Frameworks they are handling this for >you, which is why it works in mail.app, but not PowerMail. However if you >want to send a character like: >Ü or ß, you have to encode it. Thus you end up with: > >Über = Über >weißt = weißt > > >Anyhow, check out the RFC: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2368.html > >I think you'll find it very enlightening. > >Wayne > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rene Merz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 20, 2005 12:41 PM >To: PowerMail discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: mailto "body" text encoding? > >No it isn't a FileMaker problem at all! >It's a pure PowerMail-bug! >Doing the same with Apple mail.app it works fine! Diactrictic signs are >transfered as they are, no need to encode them. > > >>This is a problem with FileMaker. I remember that at Apple we had to >>write a bunch of custom email headers for the email in order to have >>FileMaker do what we needed with non US-ASCII characters. I'll dig >>through my old scripts and see if I can dig up anything, but I only have >>access to the scripts I wrote and compiled as AppleScript files. Things >>which I wrote and were included as part of FileMaker's custom scripts I >>no longer have access to and I think that's where we ended up burying >>that piece of code. >> >>Wayne >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Rene Merz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sent: Oct 20, 2005 10:20 AM >>To: PowerMail discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: mailto "body" text encoding? >> >>I "abuse" mailto for transfering mails from FileMaker to PowerMail and to >>send them therefrom. >> >>Example of the FileMaker(FM)-script: >>---------- >>"mailto:"&FM_FIELD_ADDRESS&"?subject= >>"&""&FM_FIELD_SUBJECT&""&"&body="&""FM_FIELD_MAILTEXT&"" >>---------- >>Works fine. >> >>Unfortunately PowerMail doesn't support "&from=" in the mailto string >>(unlike other programs so as Eudora, see <http://www.tandb.com.au/email/ >>clients/>). >>Anyway. >> >>--> The much bigger problem is: the diacritic signs (like the german >>umlauts) come in a very strange form into the PowerMail mailtext. >> >>Converting such signs into ASCI or Unicode code (with preceding %-sign) >>couldn't help. >> >>Is there a way to encode such diacritic signs in the body of mailto in a >>form which PowerMail accepts?
