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? > > > >
